Sharon Clontz Rowe

I highly endorse Dadvent Calendar Day 5. Although I’ll note while pulling over for historical markers is very dad-coded it’s something that can and should be done by everyone! Public history is for all of us!

Someone posted about a John Irving book they are reading. Now I must know if I was the only one who cried at the closing credits of "The World According to Garp." It was 1982 and the song played at the end is "When I'm 64." And of course, John Lennon had been murdered in 1980.

I have not read "Until I Find You", but have read a lot of Irving. Somehow I missed "The Cider House Rules" until last year. Just wow if you have not read it.

Red-pawed.

About 25 years ago, two young men came to my reference desk. After questioning, I realized they were looking to grow marijuana indoors. I told them we didn't have what they wanted. Then I told them to go to the local bookstore and look for the magazine "High Times." They thanked me profusely.

Over 20 years ago, a fellow librarian friend told me something that made me never worry about my TBR pile again. One of her friends told her that they were working on a TBR room. That has been my goal in life ever since.

Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords This is evil.

Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.

NEW: Personal Announcement I just made a personal announcement on a live show I want to share with you

NEW: I have a personal announcement. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-person...

She was military.

I use Wikipedia like I used to use an almanac - quick, consistent fact-checking. The "essays" are commentary.

I must admit, I missed the significance of the 11 stars.

How bad are the Epstein files?

Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”

@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”

I just got the renewal notice for my homeowner's premium which comes due in January. 29.8% increase. Unprecedented.

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

Wow, USCIS didn't even wait a hot minute. The U.S. Constitution guarantees individualized guilt and due process. Collective punishment (the harming or penalizing of people for actions they didn’t commit) violates these principles.

Celebrating Thanksgiving

Large text on the cover of Street Roots Nov. 26, 2025 issue says, "No vacancy? County’s highly successful motel shelters face lack of support. PAGE 3." In the background are illustrations of two motels staggered atop one another on the page.

🗞 In the new issue of Street Roots: County motel shelters successful but lacking support, Milepost 5 safety and health code violations, homelessness in Corvallis and more.

Find a vendor in your neighborhood to purchase this week's issue: streetroots.org/vendors#locate

What about the other 14 percent?

Coffee truck in Corona del Tucson, Arizona, called Caffeine Dealer

Names of drinks on the Specialty menu at the Caffeine Dealer in Camino del Tucson, Arizona: Six Seven Cran Rizz Bussin’ No Cap Vibe Check

Found an honest coffee truck in Corona del Tucson, Arizona, that is hip to the kids (moves slightly bent arms up and down with palms up)

It used to be seven years to become vested in a pension, but has been five years in most places since 1986. I began my professional career in 1987 and currently have two pensions that I vested in after five years. So Congress is NOT doing this differently than anyone else.

Fearing an imminent US ground invasion of Venezuela, six major airlines have cancelled all flights into the country effective immediately.

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

www.wbtv.com/2025/11/22/s...

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

I lived in Philadelphia for a year. I have been addicted to cheesesteaks ever since - though it is incredibly hard to find a decent one elsewhere. But I hated the soft pretzels even though at the time I liked regular pretzels (only like white chocolate coated ones now.)

Fam, not to worry…

You too can decorate your home like the White House, and it’s just a click away.

Texas Turns Its Sprawling State Police Force Into Immigration Agents for Trump The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached DPS, raising fears of widespread racial profiling.

New from @francescadnunz.bsky.social: Texas Department of Public Safety and ICE signed a pair of agreements that will authorize state police within DPS’s Criminal Investigations and Highway Patrol divisions to effectively operate as ICE agents, on a statewide basis.

I did not know why Charlotte was a target.