Author: KJacobson
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Zine
Zines are a great way to explore creative self-expression and produce personalized content. Here’s my story about how I created my first zine!
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Creative Teens Creating Information
Note: This is the second in a series of posts I wrote for my Masters in Library and Information Science. Welcome to the 21st century! We use computers for everything! Throughout my teacher education program and tenure as an educator, I was faced with many questions regarding student learning and student behavior. Being that it…
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The Wave of the Future: Adolescents as an Information Community
Note: The following is the first in a series of posts I wrote for my Masters in Library and Information Science program. My last year of teaching, I taught a unit on academic research to a room full of high school seniors. It came at the end of the year, and by that time, I…
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Hello, Mr. Chips…or how I learned to love my chiropractor.
My chiropractor is my hero. I never truly appreciated this until adulthood (I’ve been seeing him for all my skeletal/muscular complaints since middle school). And, truth, my admiration came from nowhere on a seemingly random day. I recently found myself in the midst of a minor car accident. No one was ireperably hurt and the…
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A Series of Scenarios: #1: In which I bemoan the privilege of the extraordinary
It was early afternoon and I was sitting in a 1950’s style diner, listening to my lunch companion (heretofore known as “my mom”) divulge the latest gossip from the local hair salon where we both get our hair cut on a regular basis (hers more regular than mine). Apparently, the new ownership had brought forth…
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This is a blog about not being able to write blogs.
Dear Readers, I have nothing to say. I’ve been writing cover letters, freelance proposals, and editing resumes for the past few weeks. So, I come here to unwind and maybe write something that doesn’t involve years of experience or proposed cost for writing projects. I come here to let my soul out of the cage…
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Thoughts on Banned Books
Dear Readers, I’ve been away for a while and that is truly disgusting. I hope to never do this ever again….until another massive load hits the fan and I’m working on a freelance gig that takes up my time and energy (hint, hint…click the “Hire Me” tab above to…well…hire me…to write stuff). Here’s a picture of…
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Sitting on my ass…
Dear Readers, I made a promise to myself when I started this blog back up that I would post regularly. I was convinced it would keep me writing and I was convinced that would save my sanity and open up professional doors in the future. I may have goofed on that promise. When you’re unemployed,…
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History in Action
Dear Readers, I don’t know if you realize this about me, but I like to bum around the internet. A lot. I think I know what you are thinking: “But Beth, you seem so bright and intelligent and I am sure you have some awesome shiny hair! Why would someone like you kill time on the…
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As I Lay, Unemployed…
Dear Reader(s?), It has been a while. Too long of a while. I’ve missed you terribly. And being that we are now balls deep in summer, and I am woefully unemployed, spending my time watching HGTV, drowning my sorrows in red wine, and filling out job applications that will most definitely go ignored, I return…