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 am Google make

testing Lens g fusing to blog post. a”

That’s regular print. It looks like for now, the limits of OCR mean I’m not quite there with a paper website on my already existing website unless I want to use caps all the time, which for blog posts, I don’t.

Cursive paper blog post Google Lens attempt:

“I am using. a blog

mas Leng

post.”

Less successful, but that’s to be expected.

Next, regular print.

I AM TESTING USING GOOGLE LENS TO MAKE A BLOG POST.

It works with my block print. I’m going to try cursive next.

Peak Kimberly struggle: There’s 54 minutes of childcare left. Do I spend it tweaking my website or playing FF7R?

Target app: Okay so listen we know you’ve bought your kid like 5 sets of pajamas this quarter but look at this one IT’S SO CUTE

🎨 M & I are doing Craftsy’s Jump Into Drawing class together. The first activity was shading a unicorn picture. I learned that I prefer line shading to cross-hatching or stippling.