Everyone who operates on a school-year calendar is counting down the days until SUMMER. Lucky ducks. But what would summer…

This article in the Boston Globe online points to current research on the long-term impact of television viewing on children’s…

The world can be a scary place for kids. So can the World Wide Web, especially since kids feel impervious…

Anne Lamott is brilliant, and I enjoy her work immensely. Here is an article she wrote on finding time for…

In counterpoint to Follow The Recipe, we have: Make It Up As You Cook or Everything I Needed to Know…

As part of my series on “The opposite of a great truth is also true,” I present one part of…

I subscribe to NPR ‘s “The Writer’s Almanac,” which delivered this funny-true-to-life poem to my mailbox today. If you subscribe,…

Holy cats. I think THE Betsy Bird, the famous one who makes being a librarian looklike the coolest job ever,…

Note: In Gretchin Rubin’s book and on her blog The Happiness Project , one of her secrets of adulthood that…

The Queen of Blogging Librarians, Elizabeth “Betsy” Bird, works for the NY Public Library system. Her blog was picked up…