Animals
- Pip Is Looking For Sponsers ...........could It Be You?
how about sponsoring part of the circus comment-a-thon? The circus will take place February 15-16 and is a fundraiser to help with veterinary expenses for Sallie, Tuiren, and Marg. You can sponsor a portion of the event or the whole thing if you are feeling...
- Sunday With Scylla
Remember when Daisy was going to have a flea circus. Well I thought being in a circus would be fun and that cats would be much better performers then fleas. Here I am practicing a balancing trick. I am very good at standing on my hind legs and do it...
- Joan Karkos & Lysa Harding Steal Books To Keep People From Reading Them
JoAn Karkos said she was "horrified" by the content of an acclaimed sex education book, "It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health." She has checked out copies from two libraries and refuses to give them back. Take...
- The Public Library's Role Is To Serve The Entire Community
Karpen said that removing a book from the public library has been considered constitutionally suspect. "Many courts have noted that the public library's role is to serve the entire community," she said, "not to reflect or cater to any specific viewpoint....
- No Book Should Be Expected To Please Every Reader
The trustees have been asked by the library system's director, Michael Hamlett, to decide the fate of "Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch" by comedian Jim Norton. A library patron in Ocean Springs objects to Norton's book being...
Animals
Alasandra's Book Club ~Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
My thanks to the staff at the St. Martin Public Library for recommending it. It's a great book. When the circus goes up across the street from the nursing home Jacob reminisces about his adventures in the circus. Then Jacob proves you are never to old to follow your dreams.
- Pip Is Looking For Sponsers ...........could It Be You?
how about sponsoring part of the circus comment-a-thon? The circus will take place February 15-16 and is a fundraiser to help with veterinary expenses for Sallie, Tuiren, and Marg. You can sponsor a portion of the event or the whole thing if you are feeling...
- Sunday With Scylla
Remember when Daisy was going to have a flea circus. Well I thought being in a circus would be fun and that cats would be much better performers then fleas. Here I am practicing a balancing trick. I am very good at standing on my hind legs and do it...
- Joan Karkos & Lysa Harding Steal Books To Keep People From Reading Them
JoAn Karkos said she was "horrified" by the content of an acclaimed sex education book, "It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health." She has checked out copies from two libraries and refuses to give them back. Take...
- The Public Library's Role Is To Serve The Entire Community
Karpen said that removing a book from the public library has been considered constitutionally suspect. "Many courts have noted that the public library's role is to serve the entire community," she said, "not to reflect or cater to any specific viewpoint....
- No Book Should Be Expected To Please Every Reader
The trustees have been asked by the library system's director, Michael Hamlett, to decide the fate of "Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch" by comedian Jim Norton. A library patron in Ocean Springs objects to Norton's book being...