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Yesterday was my Half Birthday. Yay? I don’t usually celebrate my Half Birthdays, which maybe is a missed opportunity since I make such a to-do out of my birthday proper. Or perhaps I am so all in on my actual birthdays that I get it mostly out of my system. But this year was a…
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Our dog StanLee is adorable and sweet and lovable. He can also be a complete asshole. Chad and I know this, but we were still almost in tears when we recently had a bad “parent-teachers conference” with his doggy daycare. (We do not blame the teacher for saying this–she wasn’t mean or rude, just keeping…
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For the second installment of my Frog and Toad Blog Challenge, I will “dive” into the story, A Swim (yes, I went there). It’s a wonderfully weird little story. Toad is self-conscious about others seeing him in his “bathing” suit (Frog swims naked) and of course that results in a bunch of animals wanting to…
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I love reading the “story for all ages” for our church services (in-person and now virtual) so always do it when I have the opportunity. It lets me relive my storytime days as a youth services librarian in a low-effort way. Finding a picture book that fits the theme can be tricky, though. For my…
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Renewal. I immediately think of that word in a library context. Renewing books (and other materials) is big in the library world. It’s important to patrons (and they can get a little testy about it) and it’s been important to me as a patron, too. I’ve been thinking about “renewal” because our church recently started…
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I am feeling optimistic about the future of our country. This feels like a bold and potentially controversial statement. I could qualify the hell out of it, but I’m going to resist that urge except to say that I do realize I probably get to be optimistic because of my privilege. But as I said…
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Chad considers this a perfectly prepared frozen pizza: Yes, this is by any notion of objective reality that we can hope to discern as mortal beings, burnt. Chad agrees that the pizza is burnt, he just considers the burtness a feature, not a bug. My primary motivation for sharing this photographic evidence is because most…
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I’ve never claimed to be a meteorologist, but I think thunder doesn’t only happen when it’s raining. So just a moment, let me Google that…I’ll be right back. [Virtual hold music…] It doesn’t. There can be thunder without rain, at least according to the cursory search I just did. Yes, the search was half-assed and…
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“Luedtke has been with the Hennepin County Library system for more than two decades” Description of me from a local television interview I’m proud that I’ve been a librarian with Hennepin County Library for over twenty years (my 21st anniversary is in September) and I feel extremely fortunate to have the job I do. Still,…
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I’m no graphic artist, but the new logo for the newly named Seattle hockey team doesn’t look much like StanLee. This seems problematic as the team is “The Kraken” and StanLee IS the Kraken. My brother said so. When he housesat for us in the Before Times he would text me “Release the Kraken!” when…
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