Who is the Dread Pirate Librarian?

Library is where the heart is... (Crampton, 2014)

I'm married to the library... weird huh? Remember the lady who married the Berlin Wall? Well... it's nothing like that. I in-fact am married to a Library Technician, whom I met in a library... we had a son and called him Dewey (gotcha!). Not far from the truth though, our son was named after The man in black from William Goldman's The Princess Bride... we dropped the 't' from Westley - as if you didn't know I love that book! As a family we literally love literacy, the books are in our blood. 

The dread pirate librarian's
fairy grandmother circa 1929

My gorgeous avatar (left), is actually my grandmother 1920's Fairy Style... our faces at that age were very similar, I often forget it is not me. As mentioned in my first ever blog post many months ago, I quit a substantive teaching position after being denied study leave last year. Many factors helped me make the choice but an overwhelming desire to be able to connect with students on a different level pushed me to make the change. Even the 'cool' maths teacher starts to hate maths after a while! So as luck would have it I managed to get a fill-in position back where my teaching career began... working along side my long suffering husband.

My position is coming to an end soon but this year has been filled with so much learning and light-bulb moments that I feel confident going forward with a new skill-set.

i <3 library (Crampton, 2014)