When you write a blog for as long as I have written this one, it’s inevitable that what you write about will change from time to time. This is one of those times. Going forward, I’ll still do book reviews and question posts, but I’ll also sprinkle in more posts about what it’s like to go to grad school at the age of Parent-to-a-Teenager.
Happy New Year!
The calendar has kept flipping and it is somehow that time again. I know not everyone who reads this blog celebrates Christmas, but I persist in being grateful for each one of you, and hope that you will accept my using today’s holiday as an excuse to thank you for reading Caterpickles.
Sometimes when you go out and into nature, nature does something so interesting that you want to stop and watch it for a while. Case in point: while on a hike last week, my husband and I came across a colony of acorn woodpeckers stashing nuts for the winter. After watching for awhile, we found ourselves wondering: “Do acorn woodpeckers kill the trees they use to store nuts?”
It’s the end of the year, which makes it a good time to reflect back on this year’s best reads. Of all of the nonfiction books I read in 2023, here are 3 books that I find myself talking about most often to family and friends in the real world.
One of the things that surprised me about going on leave from the school library is how much harder masking is now that I’m no longer doing it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. I thought I’d be relieved to only have to mask every once in a while, but it turns out intermittent masking as Random Community Member is much more emotionally and cognitively tasking than wearing a mask to work every day.
Since Twitter began exploding in earnest back in July, I’ve been ruminating on how or whether I want to continue using Twitter-like social media going forward. Here’s how I’m thinking through it so far.
I realized this morning as I watched the troops of middle schoolers walking down our street to report for classes that I never did tell you how last year in the public middle school library went (aside from the nonfiction project, that is). Let’s fix that, shall we?
Like so many, we here at Caterpickles Central are heartbroken at the news coming out of Maui.
The school year is finally over and summer well underway. Seems like the perfect time to take a look back at the nonfiction project and see whether all that work I did last year to make our nonfiction section more browse-able paid off.
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