This post was going to be a rant about ironic libraries but I just can’t do it. See what five minutes reflection will do for you? Instead I’ll try and embarrass myself, then rant a teensy bit and then try and engage you in conversation. So get ready to comment. When I was a teenager…

My love/hate relationship with the public Library continues. By necessity really; I have to keep going back there to return my books, and what? I’m supposed to leave there empty-handed? Still though, the Library can be an odd place. Let’s take last night for instance. Last night, while my son and I sat in the…

You may or may not remember Scuppers The Sailor Dog from your childhood. I didn’t but my son will. Scuppers, born at sea, is a sailor and the sailor is a dog. This short little Golden Book by the sad and weird (well, I get that feeling anyway) Margaret Wise Brown, taught me every thing…

As a reader and lover of words, words, words, as a blogger loving WordPress, as a graphic artist concerned with essential simplicity and as a burgeoning web design hobbyist, it makes me all sorts of happy to read this loaded comment from WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg: I try to imagine code like the poetry of…

One of my favorite bookish movie adaptations has to be the 1967 Russian animated version of Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book by Soyuz Multfilm. It’s certainly more faithful than the somewhat recent adaptation featuring Jason Lee that completely misses the point of The Jungle Book and instead features an Indian Tarzan in a story too dumb…