Today I share with you a second tip from Ten Self-Care Tips: Looking for Sane Practices in Times of Insane Demands. Tip #2 is: Create before you consume. Just that simple. When you get up in the morning, resist the…
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This month I’m conducting a workshop at the California Library Association Conference: Ten Self-Care Tips: Looking for Sane Practices in Times of Insane Demands. I’ll break down those tips for you here over the next ten weeks. Tip #1: Be…
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This week I was in a meeting in which we were asked to think about our “superpower.” Mine is one I’m still developing. Thinking of it reminded me of a post I wrote about my superpower in 2021 for Laura’s…
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Hey! Happy International Literacy Day! As you may know, I’ve worked in adult literacy and education for more than forty years now. It’s a career that inspires me, teaches me, and makes me think. And it causes me to appreciate…
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This week I had reason to revisit a book I read in the early 2000s – Good to Great, Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t. It’s a book that has always stayed in my mind, but I…
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I love the crisp vibrant flower of the bougainvillea. I love that it reminds me of Mexico, and of Southern California. Living in the Pacific Northwest, I thought my bougainvillea days were over until I saw some for sale at…
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