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Ham On Regal

Posted in Explore and Discover, For You, Parents and Teachers on February 26, 2015 at 6:00 am

By Aileen Luppert A person must have incredible dedication, passion and drive to agree to volunteer 20 hours a week, for months at a time, on top of a full-time job. Would you give up 8 hours every Saturday for three months? Tom Blue, and thousands of volunteers over the last 52 years have done […]

Tags: community, q&a

School Lunch Ideas For Kids

Posted in For You, kids, Parents and Teachers on February 24, 2015 at 6:00 am

By Rachel Edmondson What should I pack for my girls’ lunch? This is a question I ask myself often. Usually in the morning when we are running late, one girl can’t find her shoes and the other’s hair isn’t done. So I quickly grab the old standbys, throw them in their lunch bags, and we […]

A Month Of Meals

Posted in For You, kids, Parents and Teachers on February 19, 2015 at 6:00 am

By Kim Harshberger I have received quite a few questions about what my family eats each week since my post about meal planning was published. I realize how hard it can be to get started or even keep up with meal planning. I also know that the weeks I slack off and get out of […]

Tags: cooking, food, recipe review, recipes

Let’s Hear It For #WeNeedDiverseBooks

Posted in Explore and Discover, For You, kids, Parents and Teachers on February 18, 2015 at 6:00 am

By Sheri Boggs Just after 6am on the morning of February 2nd, I settled on the couch with my laptop, a fresh cup of coffee, and an uncontrollable mane of bedhead. While my bleary eyes slowly focused on the live webcast of the Youth Media Awards being held right that moment in Chicago, I opened […]

What To Do in Spokane County

Posted in Explore and Discover, For You on February 17, 2015 at 6:00 am

By Brian Vander Veen Recently on the SCLD blog, our deputy director Patrick Roewe wrote about the Libraries Transforming Communities initiative, describing how SCLD has begun reaching out to various groups and individuals within our service area to find out about their aspirations for their communities and about the challenges they face as they rea […]

The Essential Guide To Winter Cleaning

Posted in Explore and Discover, For You on February 12, 2015 at 6:00 am

By Kelsey Hudson When I first moved away from home, I came to the realization that young adults everywhere eventually have—living away from your parents means there’s no one to clean up after you. I was never that messy a person, but it meant there was no one there to help load the dishwasher, fold […]

Tags: cleaning, home, spring cleaning

Mystery Read-alikes for Downton Abbey Withdrawal

Posted in Explore and Discover, For You on February 10, 2015 at 6:00 am

By Gwendolyn Haley I confess that I am obsessed with Downton Abbey. Beyond just the beautiful setting and clothes, which I admit I adore, there’s something about the post WWI era that just captures my imagination. It’s a period of time in which the world seemed to wait with bated breath for the next major […]

Tags: 1920s, Downton Abbey, mysteries

Behind the Scenes at the Youth Media Awards

Posted in Explore and Discover, For You, kids, Parents and Teachers on February 5, 2015 at 6:00 am

By Sheri Boggs Mondays are not normally my thing. But there’s one Monday that occurs around this time every year that I anticipate with the kind of nerdy fervor that other people reserve for, say, the World Series. I’m talking about the Youth Media Awards (or YMAs, as we librarians like to call them), during […]

Recipe Review: Enchilada Soup

Posted in Explore and Discover, For You on February 4, 2015 at 6:00 am

By Kim Harshberger Do you ever feel like your social network suddenly becomes obsessed with a recipe? It pops up on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter suddenly, and with gusto. It’s everywhere. At times it’s hard to know what exactly it is about posts that make them go wild, and I often wonder if the recipe […]

Valentine’s Day Celebrations For the Skeptical

Posted in Explore and Discover, For You, kids, Parents and Teachers on February 3, 2015 at 6:00 am

By Rachel Edmondson Valentine’s Day tends to be polarizing. People either love it, hate it, or try to ignore it. Some love it when they have a significant other, and hate it when they don’t. Some are completely ambivalent until suddenly that someone special comes along. Suddenly they feel the need to make up for […]

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