Daniel's Realm

 The last two weeks have been very rough, the Fiscal Officer/Assistant Director that worked with me at Wauseon Public Library passed away after a battle with bone cancer, besides being my boss when the Library Director was gone, she was also a friend and I will miss her dearly she was so much fun to work with, she could always make you laugh, she was a wonderful person I feel so blessed that I got to work with her the last six years--now the library is looking for a part-time Fiscal Officer. With the passing of our Fiscal Officer/Assistant Director, another change was made, the board eliminated the Assistant Director Position and those duties were transferred to me under my new Job Title that I was given in October of 2022 as Head Librarian, with the added duties my pay was increased--yes I am pleased with the pay increase (my pay was increased once I accepted the Head Librarian Position), but the circumstances for the added duties and pay increase came at the loss of losing our Fiscal

February has arrived, unfortunately the groundhog saw his shadow so we will have 6 more weeks of winter, let's hope those 6 weeks come quickly! I am going to try something new for this blog post, a couple of prompts to get us thinking, you can choose 1 or answer both. The first prompt: What is a skill you love that you have? The second prompt: Write about a happy moment you think of fondly.     I am going to answer this prompt, there are several happy moments that I think of fondly, but I will write about just one: the moment I think of fondly is when my mom came home with this little ball of fur that some friends of ours gave her--it was a torty kitten, we named her Jasmine--she looked at me and practically jumped out of my mom's hand to come to me--we have had her for almost 14 years, she had been a joy to have. Like I said there are other happy moments I think of fondly. Please do answer these prompts, I look forward to reading them.

  An Amazing Book! I normally do not read nonfiction, unless it really peaks my interest . . . I came across this Autobiography "Beyond the Wand" by Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, I thought to myself "I have got to read this because it is Tom Felton and I loved the Harry Potter films". I decided to check it out and read it.  This book is amazing . . . as you are reading this book, you feel like Tom is setting right beside you answering your questions, to me this book is personal to the fans and I really enjoyed this book, it is one of those books, I am going to purchase for my own collection. Wauseon Public Library has hardcover copy of the book and the audiobook. You Harry Potter franchise fans, I know you are out there--this one is a good one is a great read rather you liked Draco Malfoy or not--it is Tom Felton who made that character and they chose the right actor to play Draco in Tom. If anyone reads this book, feel free to share