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Earwax, Book Banning, and the Mat-Su School Board
Leave a commentMay 16, 2020 by libroshombre
“Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self-strangulation,” according to life-style philosopher Andrew J. Bernstein. “They not …
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Harry Stuff, Stargazy Pie, and Escapism
Leave a commentMay 16, 2020 by libroshombre
Horror writer maintained that, “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality,” …
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People, Poetry and Powerhouse
Leave a commentApril 12, 2020 by libroshombre
The people at People Magazine want you to know that February 20 is National Hoodie-hoo Day, when everyone should “step …
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Mini-circuses, Mini-tomes, and Mini-libraries
Leave a commentApril 2, 2020 by libroshombre
Playwright Chu-Win observed that “Life is perhaps most wisely regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings, and every day …
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Murders, Measuers, and MSG
Leave a commentMarch 31, 2020 by libroshombre
Shakespeare wrote in “Titus Andronicus” that “Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped,/ Doth burn the heart to cinders where it …
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Tea, Twain, and Tomes
Leave a commentMarch 30, 2020 by libroshombre
One’s personal collection of books, or lack thereof, is often interesting, hence my curiosity about other people’s libraries. Perhaps a …
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Hissies, Conniptions, and Negligees
Leave a commentMarch 24, 2020 by libroshombre
“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within,” according to Ralph Waldo Emerson. That’s true enough, but, …
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Snails, Shakespeare, and Stories
Leave a commentMarch 24, 2020 by libroshombre
Viral allusions appear everywhere you look, even children’s books. For instance, “Snails Are Just My Speed,” a nonfiction work from …
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Glisterning Glitter, Typos, and the Comma Queen
Leave a commentDecember 11, 2019 by libroshombre
American author E.A. Bucchieneri spoke for all writers when she stated, “typos keep you humble.” Thirty-six years of my weekly …
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Ouija Boards, Gratitude, and Dogs
Leave a commentDecember 10, 2019 by libroshombre
After my column about Ouija Boards, a curious reader asked me to elaborate on the name’s origin. Smithsonianmag.com wrote, “Contrary …
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