It’s All Been Said Before

I’ve been staring at this document for several days now, wondering what to write and how to write it. Because, as my title indicates, it’s all been said before. In lots of different ways, with all the same words, not just in the past week, but in the past ten years. Twenty years. And more.…

Monday Minutiae – 10.18.2021

Copy Room Requests A hot topic in the publishing circles is the concern about the paper supply chain for print copies of books and recommendations to order now for books you might want to give as Christmas presents, for example. I remember early in the pandemic (you know, during the odd toilet paper shortage) reading…

Monday Minutiae – 02/11/19

Daily Oral LanguageMy friend and colleague, Jeff Zupfer, makes music. He writes lots of different things, but because he also teaches music at an elementary school, he writes a lot of children's music. During our cold-cold-cold #PolarVortex days here in Minnesota, he wrote a song… about Minnesota. What made me even happier was that it…

Monday Minutiae -12/17/18

Intervention Support You know how you put a bunch of books on hold at the library, and they ALL come in at once? If you think that is overwhelming, imagine this person: Sound off in the comments your ideas on why that person put so many different books on hold (varying publishing dates, authors, etc).…