April is National Poetry Month, a month when I hope to leave the “mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful” (e. e. cummings) world of Oregon winter behind. April 29 is Poem In Your Pocket Day. Choose a poem, pocket it, and carry it. Share it with family, friends, and coworkers or just cherish it. The Academy of American [...]
Sunshine and springtime are great sources of inspiration but when the rain continues, it can be difficult to pull yourself out of the doldrums. Folks with chronic conditions often have heavy work to keep themselves on an even keel when facing health challenges on top of every other sort of stress.
As many of you know because you were there scooping up bargains, the Friends’ Big Book Sale was the last weekend in February. What a whopping success with a record $37,000 earned! It was the first book sale where folks could use their debit and credit cards and about 17% of the sales came from [...]
First off I owe you an apology because November, National Novel Writing Month, has already begun and time is of the essence. If you can’t dash off your 50,000 word (175-page) novel by November 30 this year, you have a heads up to be thinking about what you might craft next year.
We offered a series last month at the library on finding work, with workshops on job search skills, resume writing and interview skills. Another way to find work is to create your own job, create your own company. Do you know that our community has wonderful resources to help you with that?
So do you think that it is a bit cheeky for us to name our website “thebestlibrary.net“? We set a high standard for ourselves when we did that and we do our best to live up to it. You patrons are the ones who keep us on our toes (or hold our feet to the [...]
Maybe it is the sunshine we’ve had lately, but I am in the glass-is-half-full mood. This optimism has me believing that our economy is on the way back up. Want to join me in this optimistic paradigm? What would be the most optimistic thing we could do? We could buy a new car. And if [...]
Whenever I see one of those “Native Oregonian” bumper stickers I remember that I will never be one. (A Native Oregonian, not a bumper sticker!) I may have been here 27 years, but I’ll always be a transplant.
Tax day, April 15, is now less than a month away. Is “do taxes” on your list? A service offered in the library building is free tax assistance. This service is not provided by library staff (lucky for you, believe me!), but by trained volunteers (through the AARP) for anyone with low to moderate income.
Today I helped a patron find a book that she wanted and we discovered that The Valley Library at Oregon State University owns the book. It was even sitting on the shelf, not checked out.
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