A white woman with dark hair and glasses stands in front of a wall with several words in 3d on it. The word 'BOOK' is centered over her head.
Kimberly Hirsh in front of the wall of words at
Planet Word Museum in Washington, DC

Hi there! I'm Kimberly Hirsh. My pronouns are she/ her/hers. I'm somebody's mom. I work as a school librarian. I have a PhD in information and library science. I love to read, play tabletop and video games, and make things. I used to perform in theater and improv comedy and I may one day again. I have been extremely online since 1993 and still enjoy tinkering on the web. I manage multiple chronic illnesses. I'm married to my kid's dad. We have a cat.

Want to get in touch? You can reach me by email.

Recent posts

I was going to do something besides lie on my couch and look at my phone but (gestures at meat cage, then at everything else). Today I have had brunch with a friend, returned something to Torrid, and scheduled a pediatrician appointment. Isn’t that enough?

📚🗨️ “What’s life without the pursuit of knowledge? When you have a nearly limitless lifespan, after a while the only thing to do with yourself is learn… I want to read everything. All of it… When my body finally gasps its last, I want to be a verifiable library in kinda-human form.” Taylor George, Lethal Kiss

I want to capture something cool that happened at school/work. A kid ate a pepper from the school garden, not knowing it was a spicy pepper. Now that kid has a new interest in spicy peppers and their SHU ratings and is doing independent research on it. I love when kids find and pursue new interests!

📚🗨️📝 “if your business is words, a notebook can be at once your medium — and your mirror.” Roland Allen, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

People are going to try to tell you spooky season is over at the end of October, but you don’t have to listen to them. If you want, it can be spooky season all year.

🎮 Played Professor Layton and the Curious Village.

As charming as it was the first time I played it.

Finished reading: Dead Beat (Ninth House Series, 3) by Leigh Bardugo 📚

I love this whole trilogy so much. I love how Leigh Bardugo always manages to leave me with a sense of hope, even in a series where there is so much active evil in the world.

📚🗨️ “That was the gift of coming from nothing. You learned to work with what you had.” Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat