Since my partner and I sold our business (many years ago, when we both reached the ripe old age of 50), we’ve traveled much of the world, in part researching the books we’ve written together. So ...
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Betty White reflects on Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball, and being a woman in comedy. Betty White was born January 17, 1922. She celebrated her 98th birthday in January. Vanity Fair quips, “when the star turned 96 ...
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The world today is different in many ways from how it was during the Civil Rights era. Many people remember the day that Black students started attending their school after Brown v. Board of Education. People ...
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The title of the overdue book returned to a public library in San Francisco 100 years after it had been checked out? Forty Minutes Late. (Readers Digest, 04/17) In 1999, Kathy McKeon, Jackie Kennedy’s former assistant, ...
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Here’s a comedy to love. It’s about sex and relationships for a long-married couple over 50 – it’s not as predictable as you might expect, and there’s quite a bit of humor. Rotten Tomatoes, Rolling Stone and Roger ...
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I’m alway interested in the movies featuring Susan Sarandon. For one thing, she’s an accomplished , emotionally believable actress. But in addition, she chooses such interesting films which so often speak to women’s lives. She’s been ...
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I’ve worked at my local public library long enough to be on a first-name basis with many of our patrons. And the rest greet me with the courtesy and respect that, as a trained professional, not ...
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His work captured our generation, the themes and the laughter. His television shows united the American family audience ...
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The library where I work just received an irate letter from a patron who complained that we weren’t quiet enough, citing crying babies, ill-behaved children and library staff talking too loudly with patrons and with each ...
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If you think that life is fair, just take a job at your local public library. Although I was raised to believe that playing by the rules is always the right thing to do. Library work ...
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My wife and I, both Baby Boomers, just became grandparents. My son Clark and his lovely Alexis had a beautiful baby girl named Olive. They named her Olive because she was conceived in Italy in an area where ...
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I work at a public library and I love my job. But sometimes our patrons make the tougher than it has to be. I recently asked my fellow librarians to help me come up with a ...
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