Where Did Odin Go?
After seven months of diligent publishing, things have been a bit quiet.
Life is a series of unexpected journeys. Tolkien was absolutely right when he wrote about setting off down the path beyond your front door: every day brings the unanticipated, the unknown. How we choose to view the unexpected creates the life we experience.
For most of 2023, I’ve been fighting some chronic health battles. I’ve also been doing a Master’s in Library and Information Science degree, running Round Table Writers, writing my fiction and my articles for Medium… and applying to jobs.
As of this last week, the search for jobs has paid off. I am now the new Editor-in-Chief for a peer-reviewed academic journal, and I’m a library specialist in a public library! Wow. Talk about unexpected.
Public librarianship isn’t the end-goal of my career, but it’s a really exciting step toward the future I’m building for myself. I believe that libraries are one of the most important social institutions in the United States, in part because they are one of the last socialist institutions. Right next to public schools and… the military? Yikes. Yeah, let’s focus on libraries again, please.
Libraries exist to serve their communities — all members of their communities. Color, creed, political background……
