This week Stasha is asking us to share things we are going to do this summer. I shared my summer bucket list and asked The Bee for her thoughts. In the fall my kid will be headed to high school but until then I am stubbornly holding on to the idea that she is still in eighth grade. She will be…
Words and thoughts from Rachée
The Bee
Unlike Phineas and Ferb, I do not get 104 days of summer vacation. While most people count the days to summer, I gear up for what is one of the busiest times in the library…summer reading. Summer reading is a juggle of special programming, books and materials for people rediscovering the library and scores of people visiting the library. This…
Book Expo America has wrapped up and I am I excitedly waiting for my delivery of books and totes from the conference. During the show I had a chance to meet several authors (not so humble brag video below) but the author with whom I lost my stuff was Kate DiCamillo 1. Backstory: The year The Bee was in fourth…
I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper amplification for Collective Bias and its advertiser. The Bee is graduating from middle school this year and will be headed to high school in the fall. Let me request a moment of silence for this statement before I…
Last night Buffy, The Bee and I watched the Lifetime movie Starving in Suburbia. Buffy thought the movie was about people who had lost their jobs and were unable to afford food there fore making them starving but this movie was much darker about the horrors of anorexia. The movie was dark, literally, as if Lifetime wanted to show that…