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Save the Turkeys!!! Did you know that they pardon a turkey every year at the White House? 

November 21st marks the sixth annual Doctor Who Comics Day. 2020 has brought with it many unexpected events, but old and new Doctor Who fans alike will gladly welcome back this new tradition.

Hard to believe, but it took a while for me to come around to ebooks, and it was in 2017 that I finally did. Before heading onto my 3 hour flight to Colorado, I uploaded a few of my TBR (to be read) books onto my Overdrive app. My plan was, read for a bit, then nap.

The library reaches beyond its walls and into your earbuds

Librarians in the popular imagination tend to be humorless people perpetually shushing the fun out of the less restrained.

You’ve written a book. That’s awesome! Now what?

The good news is that we want people to read your book!

Writing can be tough, and it’s tougher now than at any other time of year. That’s right: it is National Novel Writing Month! NaNoWriMo is a yearly challenge for writers to commit to writing 50,000 words, the standard benchmark for a complete novel, and yes, that is just as hard as it sounds.

Thanksgiving is often seen as just a time to eat a lot of food and watch football. How can we remind our kids, and ourselves, that there is more to this holiday? Too often our kids seem to expect things rather than be thankful for them. And, honestly, I find myself doing that at times.... 

There is no question that this lockdown has taken a great toll on our countries’ people and on the experiences of our youth, so it is extremely imperative that everyone takes steps into understanding what is happening to them mentally and physically in order to better manage our menta

Alert! Alert! Spooky season doesn’t end in October! For some of us, spooky season is every season.