My director let me thumb through his Iraqi Most-Wanted playing cards today. He ordered them off a Web site and passed the URL along to me. These cards are from United States Playing Cards, the real company that distributed the decks to the troops, not some trademark-infringing copy-cat.
They even have a [...]
I tried to step out of the librarian stereotype by dying my hair purple for the Mystery Book Group I’m in. (Believe it or not, this wild group is sponsored by a branch of my local library.) As you can guess from my wording, it didn’t work. Don’t worry: my hair isn’t [...]
We read Sarah Strohmeyer’s “Bubbles Unbound” for the Mystery Book Group in May. Bubbles is a beautician trying to start a journalism career. Throughout the book, Strohmeyer interlaces beauty tips with the action. Someone suggested that we each try a tip for tonight’s gathering. Since I wasn’t about to pluck [...]