Mary-Carol Riehs

The northern lights from my backyard outside Chicago!!

Enjoyed your reading, too.

Just finished listening to the audiobook. Helped to energize me on my drive to work each day to take on whatever gets flung at us. Thank you. Thank you!

Today would have been my dad's 91 birthday. Thinking of him today. And making a donation to support research into Alzheimer's disease.

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them.

Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

I feel for his family and friends, and for the young people in the cast who are so distraught. Please pray for Doug.

Opening night of my theatre company's annual fundraiser Murder Mystery. It was fantastic! Audience was having a wonderful time! And then, during the bows, one of the cast collapsed. 911 call, paramedics were summond, and we don't know anything else. I hope he is recovering, but I...am not optimistic

New York public school system makes all their students learn the recorder because they’re secretly looking for the one kid that will solve their rat problem

Huzzah!!!

#copyediting

Q. Is "none" singular or plural?

A. Yes.

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Disappointed that I have to go be the Saturday Librarian

I'm having a hard time focusing on work today because my thoughts and heart are full of concern for friends in Los Angeles as the fires rage there. So many places I used to go are gone now, and even my former home is threatened. Praying for you, my friends. Be safe.

Should be interesting

Jimmy Carter Dies at 100: News and Reactions (Gift Article) The former president, a peanut farmer and Democrat from Georgia, was known as much for his charity and diplomatic work later in life as he was for his single presidential term, which ended in 1981.

Jimmy Carter has died. A remarkable man who has been on our minds a lot lately, for many reasons. What an example he set for everyone who has had to ask themselves, “Now what?”

www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

Pretty tortoise-shell cat face

Pretty short-hair cat with black face and white neck

Thisby and Pyramus

One of my favorite corny movies is on right now, The Holiday. I need more corny in my life.

In these times, I find the most radical & revolutionary acts are decency & kindness. Who's with me?

Tabby cat, face in focus, giving camera a side-eye while snuggled contentedly against her human.

Thisby has been snuggling like this since I returned from my trip. I missed her, too! But I had a wonderful time with my mom and my brother celebrating mom's 90th birthday!

I've recently become the cataloging librarian at my library and I did not know this! Thank you for explaining it.

At the Illinois Library Association conference. Great keynote by Emily Knox about materials challenges and challenging times for libraries. #ilaac2023

Pyramus

Thisby

Yes! Thank YOU!