The Clerk Manifesto

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When drinking too much lemonade gives you diabetes, make preserved lemons instead. When ...

It sneaks up on you. Only moments ago I was a dashing young library clerk artist, doing interesting things about town, working part time a...

I am never, ever, ever late to my job. Well, maybe once I was a little late. Wait, let's skip ahead to the full confession. I am ...

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Many of you read my blog regularly. Some of you read my blog occasionally, like, for instance, my co-worker Dave who has taken to prefacin...

Some people say that true adventure is dead, that everything important in the world has been explored and every great feat of man against...

The reinvention of cooking does not come along every day. So it is with some pride that I here introduce my own completely new approach to...

Currently my life is overwhelmed with a lot of things I don't traditionally like. I have frequent back therapy appointments, a long...

I have written over 600 blog posts. Some of them were good, some maybe not so. To tell you the truth it can be hard for me to tell. Close...

I try not to talk about the weather all the time here. I stick to when it gets interesting; giant storms, endless rains, tornadoes, thi...

I have worked at my library for twenty years. The history of the place pours through my hands like sand. I don't know why I grasp at ...

It may come as a small surprise to you that henceforth this blog will be entirely devoted to all things related to cats. Why have I decid...

Last year I wrote a blog. And every day at 8:30 in the morning I would release a new blog post into the world. I'd watch it break fro...

Although we are now safely ensconced in 2015, I wanted to take one last look back at the blog year that was, noting the major highlights ...

Seeking ever to improve my blog's readability, quality, and customer satisfaction rating I have taken this New Year as an opportunity...

When I am not annoyed I am often fascinated. There I am out at the front desk with a long time co-worker with whom I long ago passed th...

I am back at work, coughing throatily through the library in a way that makes my co-workers eye me with a small amount of sympathy and a ...

Having had a rough end to 2014, with a wretched back injury and, even more recently, an unreasonably fierce cold (or flu!), I am eager to...

We needed a couple of ceiling lights in our pursuit of household perfection, or at least in our pursuit of our house not being a decrepit ...

So it is the day after Christmas, December 26 to be precise, and my wife and I have things to take care of around town. There's a lit...