"Excuse me....Do you have a minute?" Older man, waiting for me when I came down the stairs from the Sloan Room. "I wanted to ask you a question ( Read more... )

Half an hour before the meeting, I walked through the back yard of the library, throwing tiny pieces of colored yarn into the grass. Above me, I heard a knocking on the glass. I looked up. Zach was upstairs in Childrens', watching me out the window that overlooked the yard. He waved. I grinned and waved back, and then went back to work ( Read more... )

My alarm went off at seven AM. Duke and Kat followed me as I walked down the hall, then locked them out of the bathroom while I showered. I went downstairs, fed the dogs, and had some coffee. I read the newspaper---My column was about the ghost of Russell Hall, and why she wasn't real ( Read more... )

"Hey, guys," I said as I walked into the back room, where Zach and Tracey were working. "Diane here yet ( Read more... )

After Paul was in bed, I got online. Logged into Facebook to discover that I had been tagged in a photo by Erin ( Read more... )

"So why were you invited to that dinner again?" my wife asked as we left the Mormon church ( Read more... )

About a hundred Democrats were up in the Gross Room, on the third floor. You know, primary elections coming up, and they needed a place to give their speeches. It's one of the things I like about working at the library---You never know what's going to be happening, from day to day. There were candidates, and incumbents, and important people, and ( Read more... )

"Hi, can I help you?" I said to the little girl at the desk ( Read more... )

"Check this out---This is a Sanborn Map. With this, you can take a look and see how the buildings were laid out back then. Sanborn charted every building and outbuilding in most cities. See, here's the library in 1925 ( Read more... )

I was the first one into work. I put some coffee on, got the table set up, and put away the microfilm. I checked my mailbox, turned on my computer, and put on my outfit. And then I went to open the door ( Read more... )