It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
I have talked a lot about community in ShelfTalker, and usually I mean the community of the bookstore. But as an owner of a business in a village, I have a whole other community available to me, the one made up of other businesses.

I Miss Paper Catalogs
It's true: I miss the pounds upon pounds of paper catalogs that I used to get every season. Yes, I hated the waste of them, especially when I'd get three sets of the same catalog. Recycling them was a pain in the butt. But I'm learning that there's nothing like a good catalog.

First Graders Who Shop
Last Friday morning we had the pleasure of being visited by the Lincoln, VT elementary school's first-grade class. Someone's grandmother had donated $200 to the classroom for building up the library for the incoming first-grade class. At 10 a.m. they arrived, polite, shy, and eager to shop.