Susan Sharpless Smith

Seattle Space Needle at Night Originally uploaded by CellPhoneSusie The month of March has been extremely busy, both at work and at home. The semester has been hopping with projects, students and faculty needs. On the personal front, I am half way into my training schedule for a May half ironman (never mind discussing how [...]

Ron Puts Lights on the Tree Originally uploaded by CellPhoneSusie I ended up with a 3 week holiday vacation this year. The first was spent on vacation in St. Maarten. It was a bit hard to return from a tropical experience and jump into Christmas mode, but a variety of planned family activities brought me [...]

Susan in a Redwood Tree Originally uploaded by CellPhoneSusie My sister, Kate, and I went to visit our older sister, Mary, in San Jose last week. Mary has been working a temporary (6 month) assignment at a hospital there. Before she returns East later this month, we took the opportunity to spend some time visiting [...]

View from Widener Library at Harvard This week I am in Cambridge, MA attending the Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians. It is a joint venture between Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and ACRL. I’m providing details almost daily on the ZSR Library Professional Development Blog. Of course, I’m bringing my camera along, so have plenty [...]

Mickey and Minnie at Downtown Disney Originally uploaded by CellPhoneSusie I’m in Anaheim for several days to attend the Annual ALA Conference. Follow my activities on the ZSR Professional Development blog. So far, two days in, I’ve found that Anaheim is great if you are here to go to Disneyland, but isn’t geared toward too [...]

Beautiful Views to the East Originally uploaded by CellPhoneSusie At the recommendation of the folks at REI, I headed out of Denver to Golden to hike at Mount Galbraith Park. It was an invigorating (and hard) 4.5 mile hike up and around Mt. Galbraith. The day was gorgeous, the views were wonderful in all directions.

I have spent the last two weeks traveling the Deep South with a sociology class from Wake Forest. The course is Social Stratification in the Deep South. Check out my daily journal about the trip that I posted on the course blog.