A Woman on the Verge…
This is the very sweet Natasha Griffin. She came out to Greenville from Portola to pick up some books for Portola High School. Many of our duplicates went home with her. Portola is the only incorporated city in our county and is home to a more diverse (in terms of Latinx) population of students. I …
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I am a romantic at heart. In that twisted way where you read a great book and you enjoy crying at the end because everything went to hell and the lovers don't wind up together because one of them is dead, or married to someone else, or a war has broken out. My students used …
On Fridays in summer, my husband has a day off after working four 10 hour days. He works for the school district but hadn't had the chance to spend some concentrated time in the library. After I'd fed the family +two friends of my daughter's a German Apple Kuchen I made for breakfast, We made …
So I know I promised an announcement and here it is. I decided that this campaign can't just end because our shelves are full. Boxes keep coming. So we are reaching out to other schools in the area and seeing what their needs are--and sharing. We did get a few duplicates of a few popular …
So we are pretty much AT CAPACITY. I think we need more bookcases than books now. What a great problem to have! You guys rock. I got some wonderful personal cards and messages that I opened today. Including a friend of mine, Jenny who sent me chocolate to eat while we open packages. Because BOOKS …
Have you read this yet? Teachers in North Carolina arrested for protesting. What were they protesting? The lack of books. The lack of a school nurse. The lack of basics. I've been telling you the story of Greenville, CA but it's also the story of North Carolina. It's the story everywhere in the United States where we …
Greetings. I THINK I've responded to all emails. There's a chance I haven't. There's 30K words of my new book due to my writing group on Sunday so naturally I'm blogging with you all instead. THANK YOU! You all are one generous bunch of mammals! You are from every English speaking country on the planet …
Enthusiasm has taken hold. I'm gone for the rest of the week in the lovely town of Green Bay, WI. visiting my dad-- the other person in my family who gave me a love of books. My dad got that from my grandma who used to drop my dad and his brother off at the library …
Greetings from the Sacramento Airport 5:35 am. That's mountain life. If you need to go somewhere, you have to leave the night before to get there. So I'm at the Sacramento Airport waiting on a flight for Minneapolis to go to Green Bay to visit my dad and his lovely wife and...pick up my tween …
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Greetings! And Happy Father's Day. As I'm a Gen Xer, when I think Father's Day, I think of the Leonard Cohen's First We Take Manhattan line "Well, it's Father's Day, and everybody's wounded..." or Kurt Cobain's "I tried hard to have a father but instead I had a dad." This might be why my kids …
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