Caleb Weaver chats with Elise Misiorowski while other community members gather at the exhibit reception. Photo by Laura Wenzel Stunning visuals and poignant words dominated the room as community members gathered in Cady Hall on March 22 for the opening reception for “Lens on the Border:Creative Resistance through the Eyes of Borderlands Photographers.” The travelling […]
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Looking Up: What’s Going on in the Sky This Month – March 2018
March 1 – Full Moon. This full moon was known by early Native American tribes as the Full Worm Moon because this was the time of year when the ground would soften, and the earthworms would reappear. The Farmer’s Almanac says that this moon has also been known “as the Full Crow Moon, when the […]
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Looking Up: What’s Going On in the Sky This Month (Fe. 2018)
Feb 6 – SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch:On January 27, SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk tweeted that the rocket will be launched from Apollo launchpad 39A at Cape Kennedy. The company has not established a launchtime, however spacenews.com suggests a time of around 1:30 pm EST.(http://spacenews.com/spacex-setsfirst-falcon-heavy-launch-for-feb-6/) Feb 15 – Partial Solar Eclipse:A partial solar eclipse […]
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V-Day
I have never been entirely comfortable talking about vaginas, let alone saying the word, which as a woman is kind of an odd concept. While I have a vagina, I think for most of my life I’ve used just about every other word but vagina to describe it. For socio-political/cultural reasons that we don’t have […]
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The Procrastinator’s Journal
Within the past couple months or so, as the buzz surrounding Chip and Laura Fieberg’s impending move to Oregon trickled through the Patagonia rumor mill, people who know that I used to live with them ask me about their move. They most often say, “You’re going to miss them so much!” As if I didn’t […]
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My Library Intern
When I first began working at the library, I didn’t think I needed help at the front desk. I was wrong. I met Natalie, who is now seven, a couple of years ago when I was working with her mother, Jennifer, at the Gathering Grounds. Natalie was always very sweet and talkative; I didn’t mind […]
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Talkin’ Bout My Generation
I despise the term “Millennial.” Maybe it’s because I am one, maybe it’s because most people seem to like me personally but when they start talking or thinking about my generation, I suddenly get lumped into a category of people who are seen as whiny, entitled babies, full of ambition and idealism, yet completely lazy […]
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The Procrastinator’s Journal
Sometime, in early October, Walter Andrew strutted into the library with purpose, looked around a bit, shuffled some papers about, and asked me if I would like to contribute to the paper. I immediately said, “Yes.” The thought of seeing my words in print, however small the publication, thrilled me to my core. Of course, […]