The back of this book says it best.

I am a teacher...
I take slivers out of fingers and bad sports out of steal the bacon.
I know when a child has gum in his mouth even when he is not chewing.
I know the magic word.
I plan lessons while shaving, showering, driving, eating, and sleeping.
I wear four-leaf clovers and dandelions in my shirt pocket that have just been picked with love at recess.
I correct pencil grips and spelling mistakes and bad manners.
I pray for snow days.
Ihope April Fool's Day is on a Saturday.
I answer to both "Mom" and "Dad".
I hate glitter.
I leave "Shuger" and "vilets" misspelled on valentines.
I call on children whose hands are not raised.
I know that "colonel" is a really hard word to read, and so is "doubt"
I know when a child does not understand.
I know when a child needs help finding a friend.
I am a teacher.

Saints Preserve Us!

What a handy little guide. Where else could you learn about every saint under the sun. For example:

Francis de Sales-Patron of editors, journalist, and writers.

Eurosia-patroness of crops, invoked against drought

Dymphna-Patroness of asylums and mental-health workers, invoked against epilepsy, insanity, and sleepwalking

Clare of Assisi-patroness of embroiderers and tevelision, invoked against sore eyes

Bibiana-Patroness invoked against hangovers

Valerian-patron invoked against exposure an snowstorms

Safety is No Accident

I wouldn't lie to you, if you didn't see yesterday's book was about the earth's end. So today it's all about preparation. Like all books in "The Complete Idiot's Guide" series, this is indeed very complete. You might need to read a few pages before the disaster hits, but with this handy guide you should be all set. Check it out today at Barrett Memorial Library.

Death From the Skies!

STARS EXPLODE. GALAXIES COLLIDE. Asteroids and comets crash into planets. Black holes wreak havoc, swallowing everything-even whole solar systems-in their path. But how concerned should we be about these catastrophic scenarios? And if they do pose a danger, can anything be done to stop them?


This is scary, to help you prepare for the end of thw world, check back tomorrow. I have a book to help us in out final days.

This little piggy went....HOME

This is one complete book. Who knew you could pack so much pig knowledge into one small book: pig breeds, care, breeding, processing, and even a snipet of agaility training.

They do warn you not to name your pigs, to make the whole slaughter thing a little easier. This book shows how easy it can be to raise your own pigs. Who knows maybe I'll get a pig to keep my cat company.

The Big Necessity

I'll keep this clean, (yes I do mean the pun) and just share the jacket description.

Produced behind closed doors, disposed of discreetly, and hidden by euphemism, bodily waste is something common to all and as natural as breathing, yet we perfer no to talk about it. But we should-even those of us who take care of our business in pristine, sanitary conditions. For it is not only in develpoing countries-where diarrhea kills more children the AIDS, tuberculosis, or malaria-that human waste is a major public health threat: population growth is taxing the most advanced sewage systems as well. Even in America, nearly two millions people have no access to an indoor toilet. Yet the subject reamins unmentionable.

The Big Necessity takes aim at the taboo, revealing everything that matters about how people do-and don't-deal with their own waste. Moving from the deep underground sewers of Paris, London and New York-an infrastructure diasater waiting to happen-to an Indian slum where ten toilets are shared by 60,000 people, Rose George stops along the way to explore the potential saviors: China's five million biogas digesters, which produce energy from waste; the heros of third world sanitation movements; the inventor of a humble car loo; and the U.S. Army's personal lasers used by soilders to zap their feces in the field.

With razor-sharp wit and crusading urgency, mixing levity with gravity, Rose George has turned the subject we like to avoid into a cause with the most serious of consequences.

Broadway Tails

It's no secret that I'm a huge pet lover. This book was warm, and delightful. Bill Berloni was a nineteen-year-old theater apprentice when he was offered his big break: the chance to act professionally if he could find and train a dog to appear in the original production of the Broadway hit Annie. Defying the odds, Bill rescued a dog from a local shelter and, together, they redefined what animal performers could do.

In Broadway Tails, Bill tells the true stories of "throw-away" animals who came back to co-star with some of entertainment's Biggest names, from richard Burton to Sarah Jessica Parker. Here you'll meet:

Chico, the chihuahua with attitude who became the face of one of Broadways newest hits

Pi, the first dog to dance with the New York City Ballet

"St. Vito" the deaf bull terrier, who saved the show

The original sandy, who starred for seven years in Annie

Bad Cat

I'm speachless.

Truck, Van, Bus It's All Good

I love, love, love Michael Perry. Okay so sometimes he's not that exciting, but man when he hits one of those spot-on-Wisconsinisms I just can't help myself.


It might be that I myself enjoy rusted trucks, small local taverns, and spending a chilling morning in the woods with a gun. I feel a kindred spirit with Perry, and feel like he's like a brother. So that being said, my dearest brother lets move on to a more exciting topic, your jokes are funny when they happen.


Try the newest book "Coop", of course it's at your local library.

Wrestle Mania

In 1984, a new wrestling league was created on a cable television channel in Minnesota. "The Kids Pro Wrestling Show" started out as fun and games, but was soon seen in the living rooms of thousands across the country via cable television, and the National Wrestling Federation (NWF) was born.

For five years, the NWF was managed and promoted by a young and talanted kid named Shawn Crossen, otherwise known as "Crusher Crossen" in the ring. By 1986, at 16 years old he was promoting wrestling venues at local armory halls in front of hundreds of paid spectators and nationwide cable audiences.

This book tells the incredible journey, that the young Shawn Crossen has traveled. 20 years later, Crossen comes forth with this remarkable story that tells the entire sequence of events. From the birth of it's creation, to the final bell, you will be spellbound.