Archive for July, 2007

the library of the mind

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

The one area in which I find bookstore classification preferable to library classification is literary nonfiction.  A good book store will have a section reserved for essays, and sometimes longer nonfiction narratives.  At such a store, you can get one-stop shopping for the works of Annie Dillard, John McPhee, Gretel Ehrlich, et al.  In both […]

accomplishments

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Though I’ve mentioned them in several other places already, I’d like to mention a couple of things once again.
This past week I did two things: I finished my last library school class and I finished paying off the last of my credit card debt. I am actually much, much prouder of the latter. […]

my kitchen, your kitchen

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Meredith asks if a blogger can go too far in disclosing things about her life on her blog.
It’s not a question I have an answer for, particularly not the case of the blog in question, which I’ve never read before and for which I therefore have no sense of context.  It’s a question that interests […]