Well, here it is! I love my avatar! I call myself Bassmama because playing electric bass guitar is one of the many things I do toward my lifelong mission of disabusing the whole world of its stereotypes about librarians. I play with the choir at my middle school, as well as with two of my own bands: my girl band (called "Floozy") and a klezmer band (that's Jewish party music, like you'd hear at a Jewish wedding).
The "mama" part is of course because I am a mama to 3 beautiful teenage boys.
It's late on a Friday afternoon, and anybody who might read this blog would love this exchange I just had with an 8th grade boy named Matthew, right before I walk through the door toward my weekend:
"I didn't used to like to read before, but reading "White Fang" really changed how I feel about books. I liked White Fang because it has a lot of action, and the way wolves had to survive. And it had a lot of pages, and influenced me into reading a lot more."
"Matthew, you have just made my whole week! Thank you for telling me that."
"No, thank YOU for letting me check out this book!"
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kWelcome to Winter Fun. I love your story about Matthew. It's the kind of thing that keeps us going.
When you get further along in the 23 Things, we hope you will share a music video clip of you on your bass guitar! I can see it now -- Rock Star Librarian.
Enjoy!
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