The Clerk Manifesto

When I go on vacation and come back, if someone is kind enough to ask more than one or two general questions about my vacation, I find th...

Shortly before my decade based birthday, my wife and I were sitting at a fire in our backyard. It was the last fire of the season and, terri...

I have a little dream of one year decorating up my little house proper for Halloween. My unbridled ambition and the grandiosity of my plans ...

Because I am at Disney World, or just about to go, or just returned from Disney World, all depending of your particular view of time , I tho...

I am just so sick of all these complainers everywhere! It's like there are all these people everywhere who are so dissatisfied, and they...

I have been watching tiger documentaries, specifically ones about Siberian Tigers. The first one I did not like. It was only pretending to b...

Today I am fifty. This means I have now lived for fifty years. One year for each State in the Union.  This last year was Oklahoma. No ...

The other day I suggested that I would provide you with real marketing tips such as never appear on the Internet because they have been swal...

Because I am one of the giants of blog marketing on the Internet, I sometimes like to reach out to struggling bloggers with a few tips. Not...

 What makes me such a great marketer? The fact that you are reading this blog now. This blog is auto generated via a random plausible te...

I don't want to use my blog to communicate with just friends, or with some specific individual at the expense of others, or to tell stor...

As a person who regularly works in a library I have, of course, been quite alarmed by all these news reports about Ebola in the library. T...

Oh, feh, another In Service Day come, and gone. I am never keen on these things; the food not to my standards, the trifling, tedious breakou...

Ethics is a pisser.  There's a Bill Bryson book sitting on a table. Is there a problem with it? Does it need to be checked in? I pick ...

I am so accustomed here, on the top coast of America, to see my favorite season, Fall, race by in a blaze of dying burning color, that I was...

Yesterday I wrote about very hot coffee. What happened was I was having a fire in the backyard with my wife and I put some cold press on the...

As a heat averse person who grew up unhappily in sunny Southern California and still mostly has to unstoically endure warmer than you'd ...

Sometimes there is a confluence of unlikely mistakes that leads to disaster. I would like to say that at least not all of these mistakes wer...

Yesterday I experienced the astonishing revelation that there is virtually nothing to separate my workplace, metaphorically speaking, from a...

I work in an ants' nest. And it occurs to me that it is pretty amazing that after 600 blog posts about working at a library (never, not ...