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More that books

When I had my first child 12 years ago I happily stopped working to stay at home to raise her. Money was tight with only one income and the library was an almost daily stop for us. We went to the baby programs then to the toddler programs and then to the crafts. We chatted with the librarians who watched my daughter grow up and move from the board books to the picture books to the chapter books. We met other parents and children there and planned play dates in the library and then at the park. We are still friends with these families.

Now my two kids visit the library less often (it takes a little longer to make it through their longer books) but we use the library app nightly as we listen to audiobooks.

For us the library was about books but it was also about connecting and community and creativity.

Libraries are a staple of society

Ive seen first hand how libraries bring communities together. They are a staple of any healthy society. I love them and they should be more popular and more used but unfortunately Americans are ignorant of them

Struggle

I want to start by saying thank you to the San Diego library for giving me the opportunity to going back and receiving my diploma. Something I thought was undoable. Growing up I didn’t have everything. We struggled like our families that my father was deported. Things got much harder for us, but my mom always pushed us to strive for the best. My oldest brother had to step up by the father figure. My mom have six kids me being a middle child by the way, not to mention my mother was also a victim of fire from head…