Last night, when I got home after tutoring, Jim asked me something along the lines of “What’s up with all the photos on your blog?”<\/p>\n
Here’s the scoop:\u00a0 summer reading is coming, and I’m working like a dog preparing for the summer, but I don’t feel like writing about it.\u00a0 There haven’t been any cute stories recently that were worth sharing (there was one nice story from yesterday at the library, but it’s not one that I’ll share on this blog because it’s about two moms and I think they’d prefer not to have the story told).\u00a0 And then there are the things that I’d like to write about, but won’t, because they’re negative – or cranky – or controversial.<\/p>\n
If I had an alter-ego on my blog like my brother does on his in the form of Mr. Crankypants, then I’d be all set.\u00a0 Mr. Crankypants will say controversial, incendiary things without blinking, and he can get away with it.\u00a0 I’m not quite sure how my brother manages to have Mr. Crankypants on his writing team without getting into trouble, but he does.\u00a0 Working in the public sector makes that kind of honesty dangerous, to say the least.\u00a0 One of my coworkers often says to me that she thinks blogs should be anonymous, which would certainly solve for me the problem of writing honest entries, but I completely disagree with her about blogs and anonymity.\u00a0 In my opinion, if you’re going to have a blog, then you need to own<\/em><\/strong> your writing.\u00a0 Anonymity breeds extreme grumpiness, and can spiral into all kinds of problems, including entries that are personal attacks and hurtful to others.<\/p>\n So I guess it’s a good thing that I have my name as my domain name, and that I don’t have a Ms. Crankypants on staff.\u00a0 But it also means that I’m struggling to come up with library-related entries at this moment in time.\u00a0 I hope you’re enjoying the photos and non-library stories – they might be here for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night, when I got home after tutoring, Jim asked me something along the lines of “What’s up with all the photos on your blog?” Here’s the scoop:\u00a0 summer reading is coming, and I’m working like a dog preparing for the summer, but I don’t feel like writing about it.\u00a0 There haven’t been any cute … Continue reading On the negative side of things…<\/span>