Rebecca Howard

The heat index may be 105, and I may always smell like a combination of SPF 50 sunscreen, Deep Woods Off, and perspiration, but there’s still something…

Read what you want.Never apologize for your reading taste.Every book its reader; every reader her book.These are cornerstone principles of readers’…

As more and more friends and family join the ranks of the fully-vaccinated, I’m filled with so much gratitude. And also . . . a little anxiety. I’m not…

During our recent arctic blast, robins appeared everywhere.It seemed odd to spot a harbinger of spring in below-zero temperatures, so I looked into why I…

Even the most cynical among us has a hard time avoiding the contagious and perpetual hope that a new calendar year brings.Understanding in our rational…

Let’s talk about fear.Not the existential dread that you’ve been carrying in the pit of your stomach for the last eight months, but the good kind of fear…

Fall offers us many comforts--farm stand apples, homemade soups, and long walks in the woods with leaves crunching underfoot. Fall fiction generally…

Jacqueline Woodson dedicates her 2019 novel Red at the Bone to “the ancestors, a long line of you bending and twisting.” I’ve been thinking a lot more…

As a librarian, it’s been heartening to see so many people sharing reading lists in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. For those who identify…

By Rebecca HowardTulsa City-County LibraryI need you to imagine one of those expectation-versus-reality memes to describe what my reading life is like…