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!
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.
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Recent posts
đđ¨ď¸đ “if your business is words, a notebook can be at once your medium â 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.
Finished reading: We ride upon sticks by Quan Barry đ
đŽ 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 đ
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.
đđ¨ď¸ “That was the gift of coming from nothing. You learned to work with what you had.” Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat
The movies loved cold-eyed assassins and flinty lone wolves. But the world needed people who wept and fought on, saps and suckers and fools who had their hearts broken but kept loving anyway, women who knew how to work magic with nothing but water and flour, a little salt, and a will that could grind iron to dust.
Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat đđ¨ď¸
đđ¨ď¸ “There was something embarrassing about dying as a sophomore. It just lacked dignity.” Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat
đđ¨ď¸ “She wanted to hide in the dark and let someone else sort it all out.” Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat