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Storytime Sunday

I realize it’s Tuesday and not Sunday, but this week I started reading for the library’s Sunday family storytime and was a thinkin’ it might (just might) be fun to start a regular post about Sunday storytime. The books I read and the craft we made… Could be a good time, right? Back when I […]

Banned Books Week

It’s Banned Books Week! So, here at SFCT I’m observing it by highlighting a few of my favorite blacklisted children’s books. Remember we have the freedom to read. Read banned books. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. was banned in Texas because of author name confusion. The other banned […]

The End of Summer (Reading)

It’s official. Today is the first day of fall. Which also means summer reading has officially ended. (le sigh…) What did you read over the summer months? And f you have children, what did they enjoy reading? LBD and I did quite a bit of summer reading together, but I also manged to read about […]

our little secret

Sometimes we go to this place where there are no dewy decimal numbers on the book spines. Where the books aren’t free. You have to actually buy them. We go there to read, play with the toys, and visit the sleepy kitty cat who lives there. For variety. You won’t tell the library, will you? […]

Terrarium

For our first wedding anniversary, Will bought me an apothecary jar with the intention of me turning it into a terrarium. That was in January. Since then, it’s been boxed up empty. Waiting. So, after the house was unpacked, one of the first things I did was visit Sunrise Garden Center where I purchased a […]

Last Weekend

Last weekend we had a visitor. And another visitor. Both were surprises. A chicken and a cowboy. The chicken left. The cowboy stayed. We kept good company. Note: Chicken was not on the menu that evening. She retired to her coop forever. After the cowboy left for the south, we walked around the Lawrence Fall […]

Reading Together: Good Night, World

The night is starting to make an appearance earlier and earlier each day. A true sign to the end of summer. One perk of being a librarian is first dibs on the newbie books that haven’t even made their way on the shelves yet. Good Night, World by Willa Perlman with pictures by Carolyn Fisher […]

One

Sturdy for Common Things is one year-old today. Looking back at the very first blog post, I can’t believe the amount of change then and the amount of change since that day. Feeling a bit sentimental. And happy. Thinking about the path we chose. Listening to Other Lives. While the baby sleeps. It’s a rare […]

9/11

Today. We remember. How could we ever forget. That day. Ten years ago. My husband said something I thought I’d share with you. He said: “Don’t just remember what happened ten years ago. Do Something tangible to keep it from happening to us, or anyone else again. Spread love.” Spread love. And always remember our […]