The Clerk Manifesto

It's one of those days where I wake up too late after strange dreams to find the basement is flooded. Getting clean and dressed for work...

I was surprised to find that though this past winter threw every kind of so called foul weather at us that it could think of, I walked throu...

So I was on vacation, from everything , just knocking around the city with my wife, in a kind of a long, soft bliss. It was 70 degrees and t...

My favorite, traditional, straight up, post Tolkien and pre Tolkien, but not counting Tolkien, fantasy series is the one that Patrick Rothfu...

As an occasional resource for hidden and worthwhile elements of the culture, I thought that today I would provide a guide to blogs. You may ...

Now that I have completed a second week of walk/bike commuting I am so fit that I no longer feel nauseous for large sections of the time I a...

Because the list mood has struck me I thought I would make up a list of a little random collection of patrons here at the library today. It...

I am seized with the need to make a list. I am dying to make a list. I HAVE TO MAKE A LIST! Why? Well, I have seven reasons. 1. I h...

Perhaps you recently viewed the latest cat based viral video that scorched its burning path across the Internet. I think I'd better brie...

Hi everyone, it's Sunday so it's time for blog news! No, really. Just plain, unvarnished, unfancified news. News! Not a complicate...

I think I must have read thousands of mystery stories in my life. Right now I am taken with Poirot and Nero Wolfe, but I have loved Holmes, ...

I have introduced a new commuting pattern to my life. It includes my walking and biking along and near to my local river for some miles seve...

I have not been following Disney animated movies closely for awhile, but somewhere along the line recently I did see Frozen . Somehow it see...

When I am at the front desk of the library I am confidant in my ability to handle the great majority of things that come my way. I know the ...

Working with a lot of people at a largish public library I regularly come in contact with crazy people. I mean that in the broadest, least p...

You have had your day off and so, refreshed, you return to work, ready to roll up your sleeves (thus exposing your temporary tattoos of dra...

Hello from Sunday town! On casual days, which are on Sundays, sometimes I like to share blog news and maybe explain a bit what's happeni...

Just yesterday I believe I might have mentioned something about providing The Truth in my blog. Not the truth, but The Truth . It was a ver...

I have been reading my way through the complete collection of Agatha Christie's Poirot short stories. I'm surprised by how stripped...

I don't know what happened. I was working earnestly enough at the library, getting ready to shelve some books, that's to put it form...