If you could be anywhere right now, where would you be?

I personally love being right where I am, being near the lobby door and hearing all your questions, but I asked my library helpers and they had many responses on where they’d be if they could be anywhere.

Exploring the world 🙂
Helsinki
Wellington, NZ, or Cardiff, Wales
Miami, Florida
A cabin in the woods with a lot of cats
Summer 2023
Cabin in the woods in the White Mountains, New Hampshire
A small seaside town north of Bombay called Agashi
A used bookstore in Edinburgh
Viewing the post-deluge wildflower superbloom in California
This mangrove tunnel: 25.1309165813572, -80.42697781639293
The moon
Floating on a catamaran somewhere in the Caribbean with a stack of books, plenty of reef-safe sunscreen, and a spicy marg.
With my father, laughing in the sun, 1998
Watching the sun go down on Galway Bay
in the sun, on my deck, with my partner
Springtime in Paris!
Martinique
Jeongdong-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea
On the Moon or Mars (but only if I could get back to Earth!)
Swimming laps outside in 80 degree weather
La Jolla Beach PLEASE
Tobacco Bay, Bermuda

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.