Burning Heart

Burning Heart

It’s February! Hearts and flowers? Chocolates and wine? Well, not always. Undying love – yes – for a good book, well written, thought-provoking, and enthralling. Many old favorites spring to mind. Books that I read in my youth that profoundly affected the path I took....
2022 New Year’s Resolutions

2022 New Year’s Resolutions

A Happy and Healthy New Year to everyone. When we are at the start of a new year we think of New Year’s resolutions. In the Christian calendar, it’s a little like Lent when we have an opportunity to give up things that are not so good for us. In Islam, there is advice...
WISHES FOR THE HOLIDAYS

WISHES FOR THE HOLIDAYS

A library visitor asked me if I could write a wish list of the books we need. Although without books we wouldn’t be a library, my wish list wouldn’t begin with books. That might seem a strange thing for a librarian to say, but guess what would be top of my list? Yes!...