Say it Rah-shay

Last month was the annual PaLA Convention and I was fortunate enough to be able to attend, this time in my loverly state capital. I feel that I have come full circle in my time as a library type. No longer am I seized by the crushing fear that I will be singled out and asked to leave for masquerading…

It’s Novemberrrr and the first storytime for the month was all about the letter N. I borrowed the idea of a letter themed storytime from a blog and loves, loves, loves it! The letter themed storytime is so much fun! Using this a starting point I am not strictly married to one theme, and can use this as excuse to…

The frantic call came few Mondays ago as I prepared for a circle time: “The Bee fell at school during gym and chipped her front tooth! Can you call her dentist, I don’t know the number.” Annoyed with her dad (why don’t dads EVER know the number to anything) I pushed that aside to ask if she were OK. He…

So last night I went to see Chris Rock’s docu-dramadey Good Hair. This is not a new subject for me; hair talk has been and is a ‘thing’ that just is. Everybody’s got their something and for scores of Black Women, including yours truly, that something is hair. For those not in the know, Good Hair was born from Chris…

A few months back a friend of mine invited me to become a part of a book club. Honored, she considers me a professional (!) and she is using the results of the meetings as part of a project for her pHD, I was also selfishly excited to have adult books to read. Dutifully I have been reading the assigned…