A good friend of mine, the director of another Colorado public library district, celebrated her 50th birthday with a "Jubilee." She took the year off. During that time, she made herself available as a volunteer. But she refused to lead anything. "I'll stuff envelopes," she said, "but I won't write the letters."

I'm not exactly sure how this happened, but suddenly I don't watch TV anymore. Not the news. No regular programs. Not talk shows.

I'm not being a snob about it. My family has a fair number of VHS videos, and a growing number of DVD's.

Many a night, we'll even plunk ourselves in front of the tube with TV trays and a pile of spaghetti. But we watch movies, not TV fare.

So why don't I watch regular TV?

This week's column is written by Rochelle Logan, the Douglas Public Library District's Associate Director for Support Services.

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Every now and then I stumble across an author interested in the same things that interest me.

My latest find is Karen Armstrong. She's a Brit, a former Carmelite nun who has taken to writing about a subject many Americans find hard to tackle without offending, or being offended. That subject is religion.