Medieval reenactment brings friends and professional skills

My name is Cynthia Parkhill and I learned at age 39 that I am on the autism spectrum.

Gas prices make the bus a bargain

Among the messages on an e-mail group I subscribe to, were the instructions not to buy gas on April 15. The timing was ironic because I had added gas to the tank only one day before.

No time for reading at the library

I had to laugh when I read the opening sentence in a recent “Library File” column in the Ukiah Daily Journal: “Oh, you are so lucky to be a librarian; you get to read.” I need count no further than one digit on one hand to enumerate the times I have gone to a library and the person on duty was reading a book.

Gaining mastery over disorder on library shelves

I got a lot done at the Middletown library today, beginning with several stacks of books to be reshelved. Not every book could go on a shelf, however; there are more books than available shelf space.

‘Catalyst’ by McCaffrey and Scarborough

Catalyst by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (Ballantine Books, 2010) is an exciting first book in what appears to be an interesting series.

Spacefaring ships’ cats are highly prized, their bloodlines carefully regulated. The story begins as a pregnant queen is kidnapped while her ship is in port. One of her kittens and a human child form a unique psychic bond.

Originally posted to the Facebook page of the Lake County Library