Does Your Book Deserve My Vote?

Denver, Colorado, 4th grade teacher Greg Isaacs realized that "kids react to books much as they react to their favorite candidates: they like them because everyone else does, adding titles to their favorites list even when they haven't read … [Continue reading]

Pay Your Library Fines!

...or my may end up like Heidi Dalibor. (Though I guess it's better than getting hunted down by the Library Ninjas.) … [Continue reading]

So, Mrs. Palin, how does it feel to be a Problem?

W.E.B. DuBois has said, "being a problem is a strange experience...a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in … [Continue reading]

The Woman, the Problem, the Dream…and the Hope?

From Juan Galis-Menendez, part of a beautiful reflection on difference and belonging: I wanted then, what I want now -- what we all want -- freedom. I refused and will always refuse to accept any and all imprisoning categories. I am not what they … [Continue reading]

Blog Day 2008–Reading, Learning, Hoping, Blogging, Being

Blog Day is a linkfest initiated by Nir Ofir in 2005, in the belief that bloggers should have one day which will be dedicated to discover new blogs and expose them to the world. We all have a small number of people and sources of information with … [Continue reading]