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Author: Lynne Vanderveen Smith

Before we get too far along, you should probably know what I’m all about. I was an educator for over 30 years – even I can’t believe it was that long or that I’m this old, but there it is. During my career I taught middle school (shudder at the thought) and high school English and was the school librarian for a middle and high school. I was a yearbook advisor and newspaper advisor. After leaving public education, which I walked away from and never looked back, I found that I did miss sharing books and ideas with children and adults interested in a wide range of things. I then found my place at a local public library in the children’s library. So my experience has grown, and I can say that I have worked with children from birth through high school and from there through their adult years. I have read aloud to them, recommended books, acted as surrogate parent and counselor, befriended them, gone to their weddings and more of their funerals than should ever have happened. I’ve even taught children of the children I taught. But now I am no longer teaching in a school or sharing with children in a library. I still want to engage in interesting conversations about a wide range of topics. That's where this blog has ended up. It started as a place to share books and will continue to do that. But it has moved on to ideas that I feel are worth discussion — from depression, to purpose, to relationships and community. I hope you enjoy what I have written and that it gives you something to think about in your own life. Reply to my writing and let's start a conversation.
Posted on December 3, 2020

Old Fashioned Traditions

As we face the Christmas season here in the midst of a pandemic, we do so having learned through Thanksgiving about human nature and the willingness to alter traditions for…

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Posted on November 4, 2020January 17, 2021

It Might Have Been

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.;”  John Greenleaf Whittier I remember reading this quote years ago.  I tried to take…

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Posted on October 19, 2020

Words From Our Sisters

Going through high school and college at the end of the 1960’s and the first half of the 1970’s, I had been told over and over how highly ranked my…

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Posted on September 23, 2020January 17, 2021

They Show Us Who We Are, Who We Could Be

I am a lover of biographies, memoirs, and autobiographies.  I like to get to know interesting people in depth, see how they tick, learn what led them to the achievements…

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Posted on August 26, 2020January 18, 2021

A Need For Boundaries

There was a time when I had some people in my life who seemed intent on making me feel less than.  In particular, they questioned my intelligence.  A couple merely…

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Posted on August 23, 2020

“Hello, Dottie”

What makes reading such a wonderful experience? What makes people want to pick up a book or a Kindle and spend hours of their time turning pages and absorbing the…

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Posted on August 10, 2020January 17, 2021

Nobody Wins and I Don’t Want to Play Anymore

I had an interesting question posed to me last week.  I’ve been pondering it and agonizing over it for days.  Frankly, it has put me into a real funk and…

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Posted on July 28, 2020July 28, 2020

A Voice for the Voiceless

Today I am starting what I hope will be a series of posts introducing you to one writer at a time. That’s not to say that I won’t go back…

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