Rachee

Last week my fellow library types and I attended a meeting to discuss the upcoming event: PA’s One Book, Every Young Child. While I grumbled a bit at having to attend another meeting/workshop/training so soon after our last meeting/workshop/training and knowing there was another meeting/workshop/training coming in a month (I’ll be missing my storytime and my mommy guilt was kicking…

Birds do it.Bees do it.Even educated fleas do it.Let’s do it!Let’s talk about love?* My sister recently had to have THE TALK with her teen about sex. I can remember the day my mom had the talk with me and how painful it was(something about cows, milk, good girls, nasty girls…repressing memory now) . I have been arming myself with…

A friend of mine posted this on Facebook.Here is the izzle: YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (1st 3 letters of your 1st name plus ‘ izzle ‘)Racizzle YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color and favorite animal)Green Eagle YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: ( your middle name and street you live on/ or neighborhood if it’s a number)I hate my middle name and refuse to…

Denial is NOT a river in Egypt. Yeah, I don’t know what that means either. What I do know is that I have not been taking care of myself. No excuses, ifs, ands or buts. I have spent the last six weeks eating crap, not consistently exercising and waiting for a magic pill. Now I am feeling, and looking, like…

For the last few weeks I have been waking up nightly somewheres between 3:05 AM and 3:15 AM. Some nights I fall back asleep with a cursory glance at the clock*, some nights I jump out of bed and run downstairs to check on my mom or The Bee and then there are too many nights that I stay up…