The Clerk Manifesto

Because the theology and philosophy of Christianity seems reasonably intelligible and straightforward I'm aware that many Christi...

There was a waived library fine listed on a waive sheet we use at the front desk. The amount listed as being waived was modestly large...

Here at my library we have an Automation Services Department. They are responsible for all our computers and our computer based and au...

A little kid came running through the library laughing and then suddenly went splat. He looked a little stunned, but as you know I...

I was working on the Automated Check In Machine at my library when two of the bins on the machine filled up at once. I cried out in ...

And so on a Sunday in the middle of The World Cup we celebrated One Goal For Everyone Day. It's not my favorite holiday, but it ...

Not too many people really read, all told. And very, very few of those people read this. And of that delightful group, almost none ...

It was shortly before opening at our library. The gates were mostly closed but a return bin was blocking the remainder of the open...

I'm pretty sure yesterday in this space I drew a curtain on the group stage of The World Cup and marked fresh a new starting line...

The one major thing I predicted before this World Cup is that Germany would go out early. To the only person I kn ow who closely foll o...

As I write I don't know what happens. It hasn't happened yet. As you read you know what happened, I mean, if you care at all...

What? I'm awake. I read a book of letters between Karl Ove Knausgard and Fredrik Ekelund that was about watching the last Wo...

In my soccer day job I follow club soccer. And because I only have time for a few things my interests therein must have their limits. M...

I don't want to be full of hate. I don't want a World Cup full of villains and heroes. I already have this in Politics. I don...

After the first round of The World Cup I wrote a piece about how after playing just one game everyone was still in it. And then the ...

I am watching a game in which, in a complicated manner, I am pulling for both teams. One of these teams, though, is leading one to no...

It was yet another morning for upsets. I was able to see the last half of Japan's amazing victory over Columbia before I was onto m...

In the build up to The World Cup I thought a bit about some of the teams I might like to see do well. I probably even have a nice neat...

Maybe about the time this post comes out everyone in The World Cup will have played their first game. And here's the thing about ...

I was so looking forward to The World Cup, and anticipated so much pleasure from it, that I forgot about one thing in soccer: The pa...