the librarian

I was born and raised in a town of five hundred people in rural Arkansas.  In grade school, I crossed a pasture with horses and a pond to get to my elemementary BFF’s house, where we would eat frozen burritos and spend hours designing New Kids on the Block tribute t-shirts with puff paint.  I learned to read right after I learned to walk.

Currently, I hold a BA in English with a minor in Creative Writing and a BS in Psychology with a focus on Child Development.  I’m almost finished with my MLS (Masters in Library Science) and when I grow up I want to be a Children’s librarian.  If there are still public libraries after the financial apocolypse.  I started volunteering in libraries as a teen and today I get paid to help people find answers and to do children’s programming, which involves a lot of glitter, animal voices and some mad hokey pokey skills.

I have a husband, we’ll call him the Wizard.  He’s Canadian and American and a wee bit off his rocker, but that’s how I like him.  He and I have 2 dogs, a mother/daughter pair called Janie and Lulu.  We’re undergoing a move right now, from Arizona (where we eat everything with jalapenos) to North Carolina (where we will eat everything with gravy).

I have a best friend called Trash Biscuits who loves to talk about disasters.  We knew each other in kindergarten, when her parents moved her 200 miles away.  Twelve years later we bonded in the soda fountain of a chain restaurant over our mutual hatred of a girl we called Humphead.

I read everything, but my favorites are trashy paranormal romances and personal narratives.  What a combo, huh? I read a lot of non-fiction and by keeping track I’ve noticed a disturbing trend.  My tastes tend to lean towards death.  I’ve read and continue to read the classics, because someone should and it sure as hell isn’t going to be the community I serve.  I like literary fiction, some contemporary popular stuff and I read the occasional teen novel, just to remind me what it was like.  It’s kind of hard to sum up what I like, so here’s what I don’t like:  James Patterson.  Nicolas Sparks.  Anything in the Left Behind series.  Most book club selections.  Westerns.  And a lot of Sci Fi, though I’m trying to be more open-minded about this one because my friends give me grief for being a book snob.

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