The Clerk Manifesto

It is all too easy at our workplace to find flaws in our co-workers. At the library I work at I sometimes become frustrated with t...

Dear Library Staff: As you know, for decades a Library Deputy Director hosted a lavish library system holiday party in her own ho...

I was going down into Iowa with my wife to see John Prine in concert, and since, obviously, he was on tour, I thought it would be ...

There is a lot of gelato in Rome, an avalanche of gelato, a glacier of gelato, a secret ice city of gelato, all to serve the 4 billion ...

Okay, I am hoping this can be my last post on this bitter and dark election for now. But I have had this one final thought. Or it...

In this bizarre and kind of horrible moment, where the world strives to understand, instead of distancing myself from an America t...

My methodology for researching the best gelato in Rome changed constantly. One could say this made my study highly unscientific, un...

On November eight I went to bed not knowing who was elected President of the USA. So when I woke up, after coffee and a shower,...

They are watching. And I guess that's the point. So unless I want to forgo security in air travel I can only say "Job we...

Yesterday we began our study of Roman Gelato starting with an examination of the problems facing any serious researcher into the quali...

Two weeks after my return from Rome I still feel slightly shy about delving into it. Perhaps all I'll ever do is nibble around t...

The hideously run In Service Days of my library system are one of the banes of my existence, but oddly I didn't much mind this...