Library Card Drawers

I dreamed of finding a vintage library card catalog for years. They are not cheap so I added it to my “someday” list. Late one night—-when I should have been zonked out—I saw a listing on Facebook Marketplace. The listing said her stepmother was moving into memory care and the family would only be available for …

Summer Reading, Library Contests, Walter, & The Superman Towel

When I was a young child, our family lived in a tiny town in Iowa. My dad pastored the local Baptist church and my mom helped part time at the library. I learned to read at an early age and spent my childhood immersed in books. My mom had to make a new rule. “When …