Category: Natter
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Between
It is a most peculiar thing to be one of the few people working this week betwixt Christmas and New Years…we are all rattling around our big old building like peas in a pod.
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Need a Little Christmas
Yes, we need a little Christmas Right this very minute It hasn’t snowed a single flurry But Santa, dear, we’re in a hurry -“We Need a Little Christmas,” by Jerry Herman
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Winter Rains
The winter rains are here, and I a reveling in them. The mountains, downtown, the Capitol–everything that is crushingly unchanging under the bright, hot sun–all look different, and mysterious, and new when soaked through with rain & shrouded with low-hanging clouds. The mornings are not as cold as when the skies are clear, but the…
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Walkies
After the nonstop inspiration! challenges! change! presented at the Arizona Library Association, a nice quiet walk in the brisk, clear air was just the thing. The fun thing about December is sunset walks can happen before dinner, and the fun thing about cities is finding little old neighborhoods with delightful little houses like the one…
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Confer
Mousie and I are totally psyched to be running around at the Arizona Library Association Conference. Day one was chockablock full with more activity than I would have guessed. I’m relying on a good night’s sleep and the continental coffee and pastries to get me through day two! Today is also the last day of…
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Post
This weekend saw a lot of traffic via post. In between having a cold, being thankful that I came down with a cold over a long weekend, and eating a lot, I sent my beloved Frye Boots off to the Frye Refurbishing Center. They are inanimate objects, and cannot truly make my life complete in…
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Housekeeping
Today the dog is my best friend. A sudden cold landed me home sick, so I am here to let her out to take the air, and to chase cats, and to let her back in so she can take naps next to me on the chair. Since I am home, and don’t really have…
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Welcome
Hello, everyone, and welcome to my new blog! I am Allison, a librarian by profession and a blogger since 2007. My myriad other hobbies include, at a glance, photography, reading, traveling, knitting, fashion, music, random architectural details, and pinecone collecting, and are the primary source of my blogging fodder. This blog was a long time…
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Improvising
As summer’s bounty starts to fade, the amount of iffy fruit in the fridge is rising. I seized on a smoothie as the perfect way to use up some of this waning produce without having to think to hard about how it looked in the package, and was really warming to the idea of a…
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