Finished reading: Bing’s Cherries by Livia Blackburne & Julia Kuo 📚

I love that this tells the story of a Chinese immigrant in the style of American Tall Tales.

Finished reading: Chooch Helped by Andrea L. Rogers & Rebecca Lee Kunz 📚

🔖📝 Read The Letter Doula: How to Help a Life Arrive on the Page by Ronda Beaman (Literary Hub).

Some of the most powerful writing emerges mid-confusion. You do not need closure to begin. You need willingness.

I am just really leaning into my whole personality being BOOKS! 📚

📚🗨️ “…to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity’s engine.” Stephen King, It

How many Halloween cardigans does a goth librarian need?

Finished reading: The Heroes of Olympus, Book One The Lost Hero (new cover) by Rick Riordan 📚

Pretty sure it’s time for bifocals or progressive lenses and I’m just about due for my annual eye exam, so this should work out well. 👓

Read 🔖 The IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto.

A blog is a zine with better uptime. An RSS feed is a mailing list that never asks for your email. Webmentions are show flyers stapled to telephone poles all over town, pointing back to each other, building the scene a link at a time.

Community over audience. Nobody in this room is just watching.