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Continue reading →: Thinking for Ourselves: How Reading Helps Our Critical ThinkingSeveral years ago, I took a University 101 class that turned out to be a Critical Thinking class in disguise. It didn’t teach us very many practical skills as freshmen, but it did teach us to consider things from the perspective of someone else. We studied everything from doctor assisted…
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Continue reading →: Reading to Stop Doom ScrollingDo you ever start looking at your phone and look up later wondering what time it is only to be shocked that two or three hours have passed? I did that a lot last year. Sometimes I was trying to avoid reality, and sometimes I was diving so deep into…
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Continue reading →: Why Public Libraries Matter When the Economy Gets RoughYesterday, I had the experience of standing on the patron (i.e. customer) side of a library desk to check out a couple of books. This matters because I was a librarian for over twenty years, but I chose to leave the career field for various personal reasons. That’s a subject…


