Jennifer Simon Halai » 1 http://blog.jensimon.com 赛珍莲 जेन्निफर جَنيف жэнайфрَ Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:49:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 National Park Mania http://blog.jensimon.com/2009/10/national-park-mania/ http://blog.jensimon.com/2009/10/national-park-mania/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:08:14 +0000 jen http://blog.jensimon.com/?p=54 Rialto Beach

Rialto Beach

After a spectacular first weekend of Autumn spent in and around Olympic National Park, we were headed home from the Peninsula on the Bainbridge ferry and missed the first installment of Ken Burns’s PBS series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.  (Thankfully, they’re all available to watch online.) The next day, I was delighted to see a new feature on National Parks linked from the евтини мебелиKCLS homepage .  Lots of related events over the next few months.  I’ll be introducing one of these – ”Art in the National Parks” – at the Maple Valley Library on Saturday November 7.  Our guest will be Molly Hashimoto,  an illustrator and instructor at the Yellowstone Institute.

]]> http://blog.jensimon.com/2009/10/national-park-mania/feed/ 0 Patronizing http://blog.jensimon.com/2009/01/patronizing/ http://blog.jensimon.com/2009/01/patronizing/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:36:56 +0000 jen http://blog.jensimon.com/?p=46 Oh, to be a patron again! I spent a glorious morning yesterday wandering through the children’s books at KCLS’s Bellevue Regional Library. Outside it was gray – but the joy of what I found inside made that (almost) irrelevant. Partly out of desire to be more knowledgeable about children’s lit and partly because it’s just one of the most enjoyable things out there to do with a weekday off, I ended up with a sky-high stack of books on a castle bench in the expansive children’s area of the library. (It was a light traffic day and I first made sure I wasn’t encroaching on the space of any wee ones ;-)

I missed Paul Theroux’s reading at the SPL Central Library because I was working late at one of the branches. I’ve long felt a kinship with Theroux, whose love of travel was like mine – inspired from being in the Peace Corps. Tonight, I’ve learned my lesson and taken the night off in advance to hear another travel writer speak, this time at the SPL Ballard Branch.

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