January is for organizing. You’ve just dealt with the chaos of holidays and there’s this promise of a fresh start mixed with the memory of frustrated cooking and baking and…
Jane's Folly Posts
I’ve taught many craft classes over the years as a librarian, but I’m still messing up. Sometimes I know better but try to skip a step, sometimes it is because…
Sometimes while chasing waterfalls, you don’t find any. In this case we visited the lack of a waterfall on the rocky cliffside of Thatcher park, on what is known as…
Son, dog and husband all joined me this weekend to a jaunt to Poestinkill, NY, to the Barberville Falls of Rensselaer Plateau. My son has almost, but not quite figured…
Tucked away in a technology park, past medical offices, daycares, and other buildings, next to a PBS station and a pharmaceutical company, is a delightful little oasis of forest and…
I’m trying to get my son into nature more (it was literally prescribed to him by his doctor). I asked him what would entice him, and he said waterfalls and…
So, on vacation in New Hampshire, I had to visit a library. I find a lot of ideas and inspiration, and frankly, I need all the inspiration I can get…
This summer we all live in a yellow submarine (well, we can pretend). For my library we created a submarine photo op. I got a sea backdrop cloth, purchased yellow…
I am not, and will never be a minimalist. I like abundance over austerity. Too many things “spark joy” to me. I have been trying to figure out how to…
I’ve decided to read/listen to a nonfiction book each month and put my notes about it here. The books will be on varied topics, related to what I want to…
