Suprise Me
Frances Henne
Prompted By Favorite Teacher
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I’ve been inspired by many fine teachers over the years but the one who influenced me most was Frances Henne, my professor at Columbia’s graduate library school. Not a household name and surely not recognizable outside her field, Dr Henne was a mover and a shaker in the children’s and young adult library world.…
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Take the Best, Discard the Rest
Prompted By Imitation
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Remember the old movie, “The Crying Game”, where one of the lead characters passes as a different gender until the big reveal toward the end of the movie? The audience was admonished to not give away the secret so it wasn’t ruined for those who hadn’t seen the film yet. That came to mind when…
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Protected: Snow Fun for Me
Prompted By Snowy Days
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Blizzard of 1978
Prompted By Snowy Days
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Some of our friends here are classmates, so they may have already shared their stories… In the Spring of 1978, I was a student at Harvard Business School, commuting to the campus in Boston (right – not Cambridge!) from our house in Billerica, Massachusetts. On this Monday, there was a serious snow storm forecast. This…
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Meeting Madeleine
Prompted By How We Met
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My journey to meet Madeleine began with a phone call. I was in the midst of cleaning out my late mother’s kitchen, standing in front of her pantry looking at boxes and cans dating back to the 20th century, when my son-in-law reached me on my cell phone. “I guess you know why I’m calling,”…
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Laughter
Prompted By Those We Miss
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Michigan seems like a dream to me now.
—Simon & Garfunkel, "America"
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Great Moments in Parenting
Prompted By Parenthood
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Parents, we’ve all had these moments, right? Right?? One day my daughter invited a friend from school over to play. I’ll call this friend Jane, because that is her name. Jane was eight or nine–a year older than my daughter–and since her mom and I were friends, the girls had spent time together before, sometimes…
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Drunk Bool
Prompted By Manners
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Her name was Barbara but her nickname was, for some reason, "Bool."
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Longhand
Prompted By Cursive — Curse or Blessing?
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But I don’t want cursive to die. Because from one hand to the next, it’s such a distinctive expression of who each of us is.
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Play It Again, Sam
Prompted By Rewatchable Movies
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Rewatchable? Round up the usual suspects. Retroflash / 6 Words Dana Susan Lehrman
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