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#UofA grad, B.C. boy, librarian, recovering newspaper guy, accidental expat. Hopes to see the Leafs win another Cup.
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Libraries rock!

submitted 66 days ago • 87 comments

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

submitted 72 days ago • 1057 comments

BREAKING: In light of the tragedy in Wisconsin, there is a massive digital rally happening NOW. Our message: #EndGunViolenceNow! Please share this social media toolkit & talking points with your followers & friends:

submitted 76 days ago • 132 comments

Feeling just a hint of optimism that we'll get a new library in the next several years. Yeah, that's the ceiling on the third floor. Lead paint what?

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

If not, I can show up.

submitted 81 days ago • 13 comments

Celebrating the freedom to read on the winter Book Show on #VermontEdition at noon today on #VermontPublic. Listen in via radio or streaming.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

The failure of the system isn't that Hunter Biden was pardoned. The failure of the system is that he had a lucrative consulting gig on the board of an international corporation solely because of who his father is, and the Dems response was that it wasn't illegal. It should have been.🧵

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Libraries rule! Pass it on!

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Boxing Day is the best holiday. Coming from 🇨🇦 I wasn't ready for the sprint that is the US festive season. Thanksgiving is barely over and it's Christmas and all that stress and running around for two big, organizing-required holidays and no Boxing Day. So what is Boxing Day?

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

So some oddball bio information as we're (mostly) all new here. I won the New England headline writing award twice in succession. Once for a story on using chicken feet for making stock: "Chicken soles for the soup" and once on artificial console shortages at Christmas: "Gamers PS3'ed off."

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

As an expat Canuck, Trump's tariffs are an opportunity for Canada. There's a housing shortage in the Great White North, and if the US is going to slap a presidential ego tax on Canadian products, there will be a glut of cheap building materials that 🇨🇦 could turn into affordable housing, non?

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Library work is more than just storytime and book drops. Ready for the monthly board meeting. Reports handed out, room setup, Zoom tested. SRV playlist from ad-free, billionaire-free, library-provided #freegal app. Just another day protecting the #freedom to read. #rutlandfreelibrary

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments