I love to write. I know, I know. You certainly can't tell that by the frequency of my blog posts. I've been thinking  recently  seriously about what to post. I've got teaching tips for the library and remodeling ideas to share. But I've actually got to stop doing those things to write about them.. It's just one more evening painting and then that one more becomes a week. Or one more week reorganizing shelves and then it's a month.  Then some how winter has completely passed and it's miraculously spring. But I've been doing and thinking about writing as I'm doing and then doing some more. Here is an incomplete list so things I wanted to write about (and maybe I still will . . .) Master bath renovation (1st week of December. Oh my goodness can we say terrible timing many many times?) Stripping wall paper in hall and stairway. Repairing walls. Painting room after room after room. Researching flooring and cabinet paints. Reading numerous (I ha...

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Woman Not Allowed To Donate Pagan Books To Son's School - Winston-Salem News Story - WXII The Triad . A North Carolina mother says her son's school is refusing books supportive of her pagan beliefs after last month offering Bibles. Apparently Bibles had been handed out earlier by the Gideons. This link has a fuller story. Is there a line to be drawn? Do we take one set of sacred texts and not the other? Should there be a difference for religious texts taken at the three school levels? Having just worked on a collection development policy, I know that we want to make sure that books in the library are as fact based as possible. Is a Bible "Christian propoganda" as stated in the second link? I've never thought of the Bible as propoganda. Chick Tracts? yes. Bible? no. Wishing there was a list of the books she wanted to donate.