Posted in Business and Careers, Explore and Discover, For You, Parents and Teachers, Prime Time, Teens on July 17, 2014 at 6:00 am
By Cara Strickland When I was an English major in college, I was often faced with that question. The one that is rarely posed to business majors, but almost always asked of those studying the liberal arts. “What are you going to do with that?” This happened at family gatherings, occasionally in the supermarket, and […]
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Tags: careers, college, college students, English, fields of study, jobs, majors, university, writing
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You, Parents and Teachers, Prime Time, Teens on July 8, 2014 at 6:00 am
by Cara Strickland My to-read list is frighteningly long. Most of my friends are readers, and we love to give out book suggestions to each other. One good book leads to another and before I know it, my Goodreads account is bursting at the seams. My life doesn’t leave as much margin as I would […]
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Tags: audiobooks, eBooks, finding time to read, Goodreads, library hacks, overdrive, stress
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You, Parents and Teachers, Prime Time, Teens on June 24, 2014 at 6:00 am
By Cara Strickland When I was a kid, I couldn’t get enough of the Boxcar Children and Nancy Drew. To this day, The Westing Game is one of my favorite books. As a teenager, and then an adult, although I spent plenty of time in other genres, I usually find several mysteries in my “to-read” […]
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Tags: Boxcar Children, Flavia de Luce, Lord Peter Wimsey, mystery, Nancy Drew, Nate the Great, The Westing Game
