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Ask A Librarian: Answers You Won't Get From Google: Restarting

I meant to restart this blog in the fall of 2022. But a pituitary tumor that first appeared in the summer of 2013 made it's third appearance on an MRI last July. After than came pre-op trips to Portland, surgery in November, several weeks to recover, a cold Montana winter (still very much here), then 28 days of radiation. The last radiation therapy, which involves small doses of photons from various dangerous elements, Miles Davis plays in the background, the CT apparatus spins slowly around me, and afterwards I drive home to the Bitterroot Valley . I am back now, mostly, and fortunate to have the help of Cat, a high school intern with great ideas a dry sense of humor. She, along with her mom, who subbed in the library several days last fall, kept the library together. I am a lucky librarian indeed. The questions work the same way as before: email me or, if you at school, drop off a question in the box at the circulation desk. Please, no questions about favorite colors, foods, stud