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10/13/2013

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Since I was a little girl, I've always loved libraries! The books, the tables, the quiet, the smells, the library cards, the severe sound the stamp made on the card at checkout..even the librarians were included in the conglomeration of the most amazing nouns I've ever known! I'm so grateful to my mom for introducing me to libraries and books. If I had to guess, she started reading to me as I snuggled in her womb.

As I grew up, my mom read to me until I learned to read, then I had to read to her. Sometimes, we'd be in the same room on the opposite ends of the couch, reading. The silence didn't matter to me. What did matter was, I was with her, she was with me, we were with our books and magazines. I did the same for and with my children.

My mom always made sure I had my own library at home. As an adult, every home I've had housed a library or library area. I'll never forget my first book club--the Dr. Seuss Book Club--where the company sent the red or blue book holder and your first book. My mom even made sure I had my very own magazine subscription to "Highlights!" And, I felt so grown up when she gave me my very own library card! To date, our trips to the library together, or being in her library with her, remain some of my best times with my mom.

At school, I loved R.I.F. Week (Reading Is Fundamental) and the Book Fair, and in my neighborhood, the book mobile was better than the ice cream truck! These events introduced me to some of my favorite tomes (at least that's how they appeared to me): Encyclopedia Brown, Amelia Bedelia, The Berenstain Bears and so many more. Then, as a teenager, my mom gave me the V.C. Andrews collection. They were my windows to the world of exploration, imagination, fantasies and definitely possibilities.

With all of the books and reading in my life, although my mother is a librarian, I didn't decide to become one until I saw the movie, "Foul Play," with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase. I wanted to be Gloria Mundy so very badly. I even took a library science course at Texas Woman's University while I was there.

In the end though, I became a writer and (now) an English teacher. And I love every moment because, not only do I still get to read books, I get to write them as well. From fiction and poetry, to journalism and literary nonfiction, I love everything about the written word and all that I learn from reading.

Now, I want to expose you to the same! I want you to know that you are much more than the walls that surround you in your homes. You're much more than your neighborhood, your city or even your state. When I say you have the opportunity to be whomever and whatever you want to be, it sounds "cliche'ish", but it's true!


What's stopping you? Whatever you can imagine, read about it, learn about it, learn how to become it. And the best place to start is in a library (or bookstore). Whether that's online or in the physical realm, use words, reading, language, the arts and writing to find out everything you need to know about the world around you and the person inside you...starting now. Right here.

Ase',

Ms. d.

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Destini Wood
10/26/2013 09:51:06 am

This blog was so very inspiring because it not only showed the reader a littke bit of who you are and what reading books and writing means to you but also put the readibg in a position of understanding. When you stated that you are more than what surrounds you and where you come from that really open up the eyes of people who think that they have act a certain way because of where they come from. It shows you can be anything you want to just put your mind to it and focus on your goal.

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Terrence Johnson
10/27/2013 03:15:46 am

Honestly, the blog really persuades me to read books often so my knowledge can increase, and the new words I understand can stretch my common vocabulary. Your diligence as a teacher, blogger, and author has came a very long way and continues to flow through the minds of the readers, so the effort was vastly accumulated to do what u love to do for a lifetime.

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Trashun harrison link
11/1/2013 04:51:32 am

this blog is an encouragement to the whole student body and in speaking in the ways of those who came before me I also find this gives me the strength to be more open with the subject of studying more educated books and opening my mind to new possibilities that could raise my level of awareness and even my own personal standards as a man of high IQ

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Ali Al-Smadi link
11/1/2013 05:10:09 am

This blog conveys a message that is very heartening and inspiring. It shows examples that make me visualize and evaluate the concept into things that happen with me. It shows that by being an active reader/writer, I can realize and effectuate my dreams. It makes me feel ashamed for those times where I could have been reading, but wasn't. Despite shame, I see my mistakes as things I shouldn't do; tips, that I can use in the near and far future.

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Michael Busby
11/4/2013 12:50:10 pm

This blog paints a creatively, heartwarming, and inspirational picture in your living room of the heart. It constrains numerous doubts of achieving anything. It also indicates to me, If you stay locked on something for while you will eventually find a key that unlocks a door to bigger things. Makes you ask yourself a question about how much can you truly accomplish by remaining exceedingly faithful in prior to something you love doing in life.

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Autumn Gray
11/5/2013 12:36:00 am

This blog is very encouraging to all the students by painting a inspirational picture of who you are as a person and what reading books means to you. This blog shows that by being a motivated reader, you can do more bigger and better things in you lifetime. This blog also gets me motivated to read more educational books and be influenced by them.

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Malihja Smjth link
11/6/2013 01:52:25 am

I just Love This!! Ms. D your Awesome and Im more encouraged to read and do my work. I was so amped to start working hard after you influenced me to work hard and not be lazy. Your the best English teacher on a educational level. I am held accountable for what I do in life and your motivation encourages me to keep going.

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