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Sarah’s Picks
Have you checked out our Facebook page lately? If not, you now have another reason to since Sarah has been reviewing her favorite reads. In case you missed them, four are published here for your...
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Reading for Self-Care
I’m having a difficult time right now coping with some new realities in my life. Work is high-pressure this time of year because there is a ginormous wave of new books coming through the door every day...
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#Squadgoals: Fellow Fat Girls
Every body is a real body. Let’s get that straight right away. Often I see people online describing “real bodies” as if there is only one type of body that counts. Counts for what, exactly, I’m not...
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No Where to Go But Up
I’m a boomer and I’m married to one. Our birth years fall before and after the peak year 1957, when 4.3 million baby boomers were born. Growing older is not an option it’s a fact and I’m not alone....
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Depression isn’t forever
Writing of a personal nature— sharing a part of my life, I take the risk of allowing myself to be exposed. I grew up in a big family and as a kid I felt loved and secure, but once I got into my teens...
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Did You Know? (Brain Sand Edition)
That your pineal gland produces tiny gritty bone particles that are called ‘brain sand?’ I found this on page 12 in the book A World of Information by James Brown and Richard Platt. If I was going to...
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How to Make a Face Mask
Masks made by EPL staff for mailing to family and sharing locally. The City of Everett is accepting mask/face covering donations. Instructions can be found here. The CDC is now recommending that...
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Learn Yoga with Rodney Yee
If you’re trying to stay active while stuck at home, and you’ve always thought yoga sounded intriguing but never had time to try it, I have great news! Hoopla, one of the library’s free video apps,...
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Hiking: Real and Virtual
April felt like a very long month. I’m skeptical of my calendar saying it was only thirty days; I think an extra week or two might have been snuck in this year. As essential as it has been to stay...
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Random Acts of Kindness
Several years ago I learned about Random Acts of Kindness Day (celebrated yearly on Feb. 17th), and incorporated it yearly into our library arts and crafts classes. The projects we did allowed our...
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