Love Books? Consider Alternatives to Amazon

Wooden bookshelf filled with paperback and hardcover books.

I love books.

I’ve always loved books. I still have my children’s dictionary from when I was in first grade.

As well as dozens of paperbacks I read when I was in high school and college.

I would spend hours at the public library. In college, I worked at the university library as well as the public library.

When I volunteered at our public schools, I naturally found my way to volunteer at the school library. Continue reading Love Books? Consider Alternatives to Amazon

What I Found Interesting: October 15, 2025

Green-colored copper sculpture of girl laying down on her stomach on the ground reading a book, brown mulch surround the sculpture, green-leafed white-flowered shrubs in the background.

Why Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave away the web for free, a South American country pledges to permanently protect 90% of its tropical rainforests, and 40 years of cleanup restore a west Michigan lake are a few of the interesting stories I’ve read and enjoyed in the past month.

I hope you enjoy them, too!

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