The Clerk Manifesto

A very old volunteer here at the library, who I rather like, said, as I went walking by her this morning "Is that a smile I see on ...

After a ten day vacation that wasn't a vacation because all I was doing was complicated and difficult remodeling work on our very s...

Nobody likes a complainer. I have been trying for three days to work up to teaching you the difficult lesson of how to be a likeable ...

No one likes a complainer. But what if you are, well, sort of a complainer, and you want to still be liked ? I, for instance, want to...

Nobody likes a complainer. Which is just exactly what's wrong with everyone! Whoops, wait. Let's start over. Nobody likes a...

As a general matter of course I do not enter into racial politics here on clerkmanifesto. Perhaps I have felt it is a subject where it ...

Come face me across the poker table. Oh, I can be so confident here. I have placed my bets with no tell and no tremor in my hand.  I a...

My library system has a 3D Printer. It's a printer, but instead of printing documents (boring!), it prints objects (intriguing!). ...

There has been some debate lately, particularly on the Internet, as to whether one can learn to be a good writer or whether it is an ...

This is by Picasso, so it must be worth at least a few million dollars... "When is art best? When we get to feel feelings tha...

I am as much prey to the wonder of the new as most people, at least for awhile. But once, as it always is, any new thing is exposed to ...

Marcus, the teen librarian, who shares my love for soccer and has even been an instructor in it, recommended a soccer book called Socc...

I am not eager to make light of mental illness, but we had such a dazzling moment tonight, out by the coffee shop, on the Internet com...

There is no getting around it. No matter how dear the patrons at my library are to me, there are some, who, approaching me at the fron...

Biking into the University I looked right in preparation for a complicated street crossing. I saw a man driving a slightly battered bla...

I was biking and the wind was blowing against me. I took it personally. And there is my religion in a nutshell. But the nutshell woul...

For a variety of reasons my wife and I did not have children. Though there can be faint touches of sadness about this I am very aware th...

There has been a lot of talk around here about me being a prophet of the gods. Alas that it is all self-generated. If the New York Tim...

As a reasonably learned person your only experience with Prophets of God involve crazy people whose very madness belies that they are n...

Do you know what Chuang Tzu says in The Inner Chapters ? He says: Do you know what makes people ruin Integrity and flaunt understan...