I'm a librarian at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. Before that, I was a Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia. I have an MSLIS from Drexel University and a Ph.D in English from the University of Michigan.
I started version 1.0 of this blog in the middle of my transition away from an academic career. It quickly became a miscellany, and I decided I liked it better that way. I write about libraries, academia, poetry, music, knitting, the digital humanities, and whatever other bright shiny objects happen to catch my eye at any given time.
Comments are welcome. I close older comment threads to deter comment spammers from filling them with crud, but if you want to comment on an older post, just send me an email.
This is a personal blog rather than an official one. Needless to say, all opinions voiced on this blog are mine and mine alone (except when I'm quoting someone else's opinion, in which case I provide attribution).
The phrase "household opera" comes from a poem by James Merrill, part of a sonnet sequence called "Matinees." The fifth sonnet in the sequence begins "The fallen cake, the risen price of meat, / Staircase run ten times up and down like scales / (Greek proverb: He who has no brain has feet) / ---One's household opera never palls or fails." I read it years ago and thought that "household opera," with its juxtaposition of the operatic and the mundane, sounded like it ought to be the title of something. Shortly thereafter, I started my first blog. And there you have it.
