Tag: books
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Little Free Library Week, May 17-23, 2026
The Greenbriar Little Free Library pictured above is at the corner of Point Pleasant Drive and Peekskill Lane in Greenbriar, Fairfax, VA. Join Us in Celebrating Little Free Library Week! This May, we’re excited to mark a special milestone: the anniversary of Little Free Library becoming a nonprofit organization on May 17, 2012. We’ve dedicated…
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X-Clacks-Overhead
If you see it, you probably know what it is because you installed a browser extension called something like “X-Clacks-Overhead” in memory of Terry Pratchett. If you click on it, it says “GNU Terry Pratchett” What in the world? The GNU Terry Pratchett plugin transmits an “X-Clacks-Overhead” header reading, “GNU Terry Pratchett” so that Terry’s…
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International Book Giving Day
Some of you may know that I’m getting involved in Little Free Library (LFL) and there is a library on my street under the auspices of the O’Connor Music Studio. When our son was younger and used to come home for a visit, we would s go out on a hiking trail with the…
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Greyfriar’s Bobby Day!
When we were in Scotland a couple years ago, we walked to Edinburgh Castle and back from hotel a couple times. I had never heard of Greyfriar’s Bobby until our bus tour the second day although we had walked by the statue 3 times already! On our 4th pass-by, we saw several people taking pictures…