The Clerk Manifesto

Stickied Introduction: In order to prepare for a two week trip with my lovely wife to Rome it is necessary for me to write 20 blog ...

In order to prepare for a two week trip with my lovely wife to Rome it is necessary for me to write 20 blog posts ahead of time. I...

This is a stickied introduction: In order to prepare for a two week trip with my lovely wife to Rome it is necessary for me to wr...

If you've been following along here the last few posts you will be aware that I am in a race against time. In order to prepare f...

In order to prepare for being away in Rome on a lovely vacation with my wife I need to dash off 20 blog posts. Unfortunately I only ...

I have been posting at least one written blog post everyday since March 21, 2013. One would think that on the Internet, with its bil...

Hi, I am going to Rome! "Oh," You ask nervously. "How will you blog everyday?" What? You read my blog? This ...

Dear Staff: As a public library we answer to the community. The taxpayers fund us with their hard-earned income. That is why it be...

I was shelving in the fiction section, at the "P's" in "Twain, Mark" to be more specific, when one of my bi...

I was at the front desk of the library. Actually, I had left the front desk and was helping a man on the computers. I felt that I had ...

They say one should not be too quick to judge, but when one is regularly surrounded by thousands and thousands of books such advice ...

I was thinking about this burrito I had at The Fireroast Cafe late this morning with my wife. I was thinking it was a very bad burrit...

Where I work, at a largish library, we are scheduled throughout the day on an hourly basis. This is a ticklish business. Scheduling i...

I am finally buckling down to learn Italian for my upcoming trip to Rome. My goals are modest; I merely want to be able to tell peopl...

A co-worker of mine follows a few sports pretty closely. S he saw something about Premier League Football on a sports show she was w...

1. Ponte Rotto It's a bridge, just off the south tip of Isola Tiberina, you know, in the river. You can't walk on it because ...

My wife and I will soon be going to Rome. This will be our fourth trip. The last trip was only a year and a half ago, and it was ...

Somewhere way back in the early part of Winter I put forth an idea in conversation with my bosses. They kind of liked it, and, gett...

As I write, my County of Hennepin is under two weather alerts. All my little bookmarked weather sites are glowing with a cautionary...

So I went out for another Thursday morning walk. I had some blog ideas to come up with. And nothing gets the blog ideas rolling like...