The Clerk Manifesto

  In these relatively early days of the normalization of Covid, the issue of masks seems to be settling out. Looking about my library I work...

  It does seem unwholesome to complain, in a First World Problems sort of way, but America is falling apart. And I thought I should mention ...

  My friend Richard asked me to read something his childhood friend wrote in the Star Tribune, our main city paper around here. Apparently t...

Who would've thought we'd get a full half year into this Pandemic before we sat down and had a serious discussion about hand sa...

Currently at my library you can request things online, or over the phone. You are notified when it comes in for you. And then, during ...

This is one of those extra posts, so I don't have a lot to say except: I like how when I look closely at all these flow...

Housekeeping is a novel by Marilynne Robinson. It came out 40 years ago. It is a slow, beautifully written book that I actually read ...