It’s the first day of #LeoSeason!! A happy birthday to all of the wonderful Leos I know! Stop by and wish Kathleen over at Labyrinth a happy birthday, Leo season, and Labyrinth anniversary! A happy birthday to Jackie at Buffalo and Bergen, whom I miss. Say happy anniversary to Summit to Soul! A happy birthday […]
You may as well call this week’s column Hill Swelter because the feels-like 100 degrees grossness is real. How are we keeping our cool this week? (Or, alternatively, what’s making us lose it?) In cautiously joyous news, baseball is back? Opening day is coming at us this Thursday, July 23, pitting the Nationals against the […]
Last week, I introduced the story that Abraham Lincoln, well before he was President, had been involved in the funeral of his predecessor John Quincy Adams. I also recounted Lincoln’s repudiation of the story. Today, a closer look at what really happened Despite not being a member of the sub-committee that actually made the decisions […]
Hey everyone! Sure, it’s a heat emergency and public pools aren’t open, but at least there are showers and hoses and ice machines, am I right? What else can you do to keep it cool around here? Read on. First off, check out Congressional Chorus’s rendition of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” because the lovely arrangement is […]
This morning, a tweet from reader Janna (@jannalibrarian on Twitter) made us sit up and take notice. She highlighted the following tweet from user Gabi, @gkhuesca, who is a children’s librarian: I reached out to her but have not heard back, so instead I talked to a library staffer from Northeast Library, who told me […]