MaxLibris

My Aunt Carmen passed away on January 16. She was an outstanding woman and I have many many fond memories of her. I remember:

being scared out of my wits by her mansion in Marinette. It was built by a logger baron and my cousins told me there were gargoyles in the attic.
the [...]

Look at this - the Kigali Public Library is the first library in ALL of Rwanda. Pretty terrific considering the horrible genocide of 1994.
http://www.kigalilibrary.org/

From Blyberg.net - (always has some neat stuff on there!) http://www.blyberg.net/card-generator/

I have made travel arrangements this week to fly to Australia in April! I am honored to be teaching two classes for libraries there for CAVAL (an organization similar to SOLINET there): a class on Web 2dot0 and another specifically on blogs and rss. Here are the description, dates and locations!
Web 2.0: Social Software [...]

Andrew, my loving bf, didn’t believe me that the full moon each month has a unique name. He kept on calling each moon the “Harvest Moon,” which I scoffed at. I said, “HA! No sir!” So here is the official list of full moon names from Farmer’s Almanac:

January: Wolf
February: Snow
March: Worm
April: Pink
May: Flower
June: [...]

Q: What show has been featured on “The Simpsons,” “Malcolm in the Middle,” and even “Northern Exposure?”
A: Cirque du Soleil!
Andrew and I went to see “Corteo” a show by Cirque du Soleil playing in Atlanta, last night. I have never had the opportunity to see a Cirque show and I have to say [...]

Honestly, I love that movie. I like lots of movies that are probably considered stupid by film aficionados. Here is a short list:

Joe vs. the Volcano
Prelude to a Kiss
Mommie Dearest
Ruthless People
Big Business
Outrageous Fortune

Not sure why most of these are Bette Midler movies…oh well. I like them and own most of them. [...]