The Clerk Manifesto

  A man just came up to me at the front desk of my library. "I'm here to pick up an art kit for my wife." He said. "What ...

  I do not quote Mark Twain everyday here at clerkmanifesto. I've barely done it a dozen times. And so it is something of a special occa...

  Clerkmanifesto says that I will be retiring from the library at the end of Summer. As the snow falls here, this seems very far away to me....

  In one year clerkmanifesto will supposedly be regaling you with tales of life in coastal France. There's a lot to be done before we ge...

  A long time problem patron was back at the library. The problem was being dealt with in a way best explained in yesterday's post. I h...

  A longtime library patron was recently banned from our library for the second time. I believe this ban is for three months. The patron in ...

  Like a recurring condition, I have been worrying about popularity again. It flares up like a skin rash. I have made art my whole life, but...

  I probably spend too much time on the Internet. With all its fecundity it seems like there would be so much entertainment there. Certainly...

  Having worked in a library for 30 years, I don't have many illusions about them. So it can be a bit surprising when people come in wit...

  There are some mysteries I will never solve. One that I have discussed here in the past involves the replacement of staff at my library. O...

  I have always been fond of Agatha Christie's Poirot stories. I have read several of the novels and most of the stories more than once,...

  Bon jour! It is hard to believe it is already 2026! How the year has flown by. I write you barefoot from our apartment in the South of Fra...

  Happy New Year! Surely you awoke this morning that marks the first quarter of a century that I think none of us will see the end of, and r...

  As is the ancient tradition of clerkmanifesto, on the final day of the year we gather together all of our notable bon mots of the year pas...

  I have been working on a music video. I finished it last night, actually. It is, as ever, all AI, which, it turns out, means wildly differ...

  I have recently resolved to occasionally share old clerkmanifesto posts from the past with you once again. This is not a punishment for yo...

  After a fair bit of build up I presented my Picasso video to a general shudder from the Internet. Well, actually, indifference dominated t...

  Tonight my darling wife and I were watching one of those delightful David Suchet Poirot shows. In the course of their Cornish Mystery they...

  You may have noticed a tendency here lately where it is late at night and I need to write my clerkmanifesto post before I can go to bed. A...

  Waiting to glimpse Santa and his reindeer streaking across the night sky out my windows, and feeling more of a wistful sadness about all t...