Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live. The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has been since creation, and it will go on. We chase chickens or dogs away from it. BabiesContinue reading “April 1st, 2021 – National Poetry Month”
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What I’ve Been Reading – 3/15/2020
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez On Her Catholic Faith and the Urgency of Criminal Justice Reform | America An Unintended Consequence | UCSB The Current A Recipe for Connection | Tablet Fencing: The Perfect Sport for Women | Her Campus at MSU How a Donkey Became My Running Partner | The New York Times Podcast Gives SBCC StaffContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 3/15/2020”
What I’ve Been Reading – 3/8/2020
Resolutions, PA Style | Pennsylvania WILDS The Internet’s Most Incredible Collection of Food History Has Been Saved | Eater Former Amoeba Music Music Manager Now Works As An Echo Park Librarian | The Eastsider LA Rest in Pieces, Dave Thomas Circle | The Washingtonian Last Night Out | Slate An Incomplete History of Spice inContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 3/8/2020”
What I’ve Been Reading – 3/1/2021
Embroiled in Multiple Hollywood Sex Scandals, Charlotte Kirk Breaks Her Silence | Los Angeles magazine Drawing the Line: How Libraries Handle the Legacy of Racist Murals | American Libraries Vivan Howard’s Christmas Ode to the Piggly Wiggly | Garden & Gun More Seats at the Table: Diversity in Librarianship Starts With Hiring | American LibrariesContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 3/1/2021”
What I’ve Been Reading – 2/22/2021
“Reunion” (Poem) | Charles Wright Frog and Toad Tentatively Go Outside After Months in Self-Quarantine | McSweeney’s Passing the Time With the Ghosts in the Dirt | Texas Monthly Ray Ford: Lessons From Past Taught in Santa Barbara Backcountry | Noozhawk Love the Fig | The New Yorker Vivian Stephens Helped Turn Romance Writing IntoContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 2/22/2021”
What I’ve Been Reading – 2/15/2021
UCs Move Forward with Open-Access Publishing | Santa Barbara Independent The Zoot Suit era is when white America learned to stereotype young Latinos as threats | The Los Angeles Times Shakespeare’s World of Science | The New Atlantis RSS Readers are due for a Comeback | Wired (Geez, I still miss Google Reader RIP….) HowContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 2/15/2021”
What I’ve Been Reading – 2/8/2021
Eduardo Diaz On The Efforts To Create A National Museum Of The American Latino | NPR Self-Knowledge Can Help You Strengthen Your Romantic Relationships | Gretchen Rubin Mason Gross Student Designs Two Recent New Yorker Covers | Rutgers Today “Calendar Days” (Poem) | Jake Adam York ‘Hi Haters’: Why New Jersey’s Twitter Account Is LikeContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 2/8/2021”
What I’ve Been Reading – 12/15/2020
Feels Like Home (Blog Series) | Los Angeles Public Library Meet the Breakout Star of Governor Kemp’s Press Conferences: Sign Language Interpreter David Cowan | Atlantic Magazine In This House, We Believe… | McSweeney’s Have a good week!
What I’ve Been Reading – 12/1/2020
Remembering the Howard University Librarian Who Decolonized the Way Books Were Catalogued | Smithsonian Magazine From the Archives: The Hareport Chronicles | Los Angeles Times A Very Mango Pie, Inspired By Indian Aunties | New York Times Have a good week!
What I’ve Been Reading – 11/18/2020
The Struggle to Diversify Library Staff, part 1 | Digitization 101 Step Back in Time to California in the 1930s with the ‘WPA Guide to the Golden State’ | KPCC Padma Lakshmi’s “Taste of a Nation” Is a Trojan Horse | The Atlantic How the Ice Cream Truck Made Summer Cool | Smithsonian Magazine GetContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 11/18/2020”
Cassidy B. Charles 