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SPOILER ALERT! Don’t read any further if you haven’t finished Season 2 of The Mandalorian, or you might read something you wish you hadn’t! If you’ve seen it all (maybe more than once?), then have no fear, and read on!

Now that the holiday season is upon us, you might be thinking of doing a little baking. I once was given some cookies made from a library cookbook, and let me tell you, they were some of the best cookies I have ever had in my life. They weren't fancy, but they were incredibly tasty.

Happy Holidays! It’s that time of year again, where we eat too many sweets and regret it when January comes around. You know what I say? Let’s eat all the cookies we want!!

The ancient argument has begun: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

The holidays are right around the corner, and although Christmastime may look a little different and distanced this year, there is no better time to learn about festivities arou

Feeling a little "Bah Humbug"? Does the sometimes oppressive cheerfulness of this season make you long for the spookier days of Halloween?

Is there are particular culture or language that has always captured your imagination? Do you dream of strolling down the Champs Elysees in Paris, climbing Machu Picchu, or visiting a Kyoto tea house?

Sometime this summer I accidentally reserved the wrong book and How to Draw Cute Animals by Angela Nguyen showed up between my storytime reads.  It captivated me immediately.  Soon I was drawing cute animals on everything - memos to coworkers, letters to friends, the margins of notes from meeting

Holiday season is upon us and the kids will soon be out of school. For many households, this is the time for indulging in family friendly activities, revisiting old traditions, and starting new ones. As a caregiver of a young child, I look forward to this time of year and bonding with my daughter

Where Monsters Hide by M. William Phelps reads like a fiction thriller and I couldn’t be happier that I picked this one for the January blog book as I couldn’t put it down.