This cold weather is the perfect time for a book, and these books will make you want to get cozy with some hot cocoa next to the fire!
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Year of the Rat: Chinese Zodiac 2020
January 25th celebrates a new year on the Chinese Lunar Calendar. For 2020, here's to all of the Rats out there. As covered in previous blogs, the Chinese Calendar is a Lunar Calendar based on the moon's orbits around Earth. The calendar follows a sixty year cycle divided into five elements and twelve animals. Each…
Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Forms of Dementia
Dementia refers to a group of illnesses with symptoms like impaired memory or inability to process thoughts. One kind of dementia that many people have heard about is Alzheimer's disease. According to the Alzheimer's Association,other types of dementia include vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson's disease, and Huntington's disease. Some people think that a…
Address to a Haggis: Happy Burns Night
Happy Burns Night January 25 commemorates the birthday of Robert Burns, national poet of Scotland. Happy Birthday! Robert Burns was born in 1759 near Ayr, Alloway. Young Robert received a sporadic education, as was common in those times, although his father William Burnes was a self-educated man. From an early age William taught Robert how…
2019 Comic Bookends
Happy New Year, everyone! It's that time again when I go through what I read this year and make a list of recommendations for other readers. I made it a point to read as much as I could this go-around and I ended up with over 220(!) books. Now, the majority of them were graphic…
Marvel Cinematic Retrospective: Spider-Man Part 1
Marvel Cinematic Retrospective Fans today are living in a Golden Age of movies based on comic books. Kids, teenagers, and adults have grown up on the exploits of superheroes since the 1910's, and more recently in film as well. Among the various comic book producers, few were as prominent and beloved as Marvel Comics. It…
Women in History- Vera Atkins
Vera Atkins was born Vera Maria Rosenberg in Galați, Romania. Vera Atkins was a British intelligence officer in the Special Operations Executive a branch of the British Military Intelligence that was responsible for sending and training agents in World War II. She was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1948 and appointed a Commandant of the Legion of Honor in 1987.
Census 2020: Count Your Kids
The 2020 Census will help determine which areas qualify for the critical resources that children and families depend on for the next 10 years—basically, an entire childhood!
Glaucoma Awareness Month
January is Glaucoma Awareness Month.
Mental Health Awareness: Mental Illness in Fiction
Welcome to a new year to continue our discussion on Mental Health Awareness and, hopefully, to reduce stigma. To read previous entries in the Mental Health Awareness series, visit the blog author page on our website. Over the past century or so, many novels have been written about characters living with mental health problems. Some…
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