1. Humaning, Nero, and Obscure Sorrows

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    January 16, 2022 by libroshombre

    Once long ago my mother read to me every night at bedtime, and she also read to herself a lot: …
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    Category: emotion, foreign languages, libraries, mothers, reading, words | Tags: , , ,

  2. Proofing, Generosity, and Sic

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    January 16, 2022 by libroshombre

    A recent online article, “The Language of Climate is Evolving From ‘Change’ to ‘Catastrophe’,” reminded me of the enormous debt …
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    Category: generosity, optical character recognition, proofreading, words, writing, writing well | Tags: , , , , ,

  3. Memories, Rats, and Hair Books

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    January 16, 2022 by libroshombre

    P.G. Wodehouse, the greatest humor writer of the twentieth century, claimed that “Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap …
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    Category: ancient history, animals, books, children's books, history, libraries, library collections, memory | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  4. Radioactive Toys, Staple Removers, and Ubuntu

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    November 30, 2021 by libroshombre

    LIBRARIAN COLUMN  “The Rudest States in the United States,” an internet article by Kathy Morris, left me ruminating about anger …
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    Category: COVID, manners, medicine, nuclear power, office products, pandemic, safety, toys, vaccination | Tags: , , , , ,

  5. Thumbs, Maxims, and Regret

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    November 6, 2021 by libroshombre

                “Doctors say that our thumb is our master-finger and that our French word for it, ‘pouce,’ derives from the Latin …
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    Category: essay, illness, pandemic, plague, translation, vaccination, writers, writing | Tags: , , , , ,

  6. Pop-Tarts, Frogs, and the Alamo

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    November 6, 2021 by libroshombre

                “Woman Sues Kellogg Over Lack of Strawberries in Strawberry Pop-Tarts,” a recent Washington Post article, got me considering how …
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    Category: animals, battles, books, education, grammar, libraries, public libraries, sayings | Tags: , , ,

  7. Friendships, Moons, and Jousting

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    November 6, 2021 by libroshombre

                Michel Montaigne had a lot to say about friendship.  In his essay, “On Friendship,” a paean to his deceased …
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    Category: France, friends, friendship, libraries, royalty | Tags: , , , , , ,

  8. Conning, Theivery, and Goatish Retribution

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    June 3, 2021 by libroshombre

                “Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication …
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    Category: books, crime, law, librarians, maps, medicine, radio, rare book libraries, rare books | Tags: , , , , , ,

  9. Evites, N-grams, and Bloody Tubs

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    May 21, 2021 by libroshombre

                “Mutable” is a good word that means “prone to change, inconstant,” according to Merriam-Webster, and it also describes all …
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    Category: democracy, elections, engineering, fascism, libraries, plants, public libraries, republic, word origins, words | Tags: , , , , ,

  10. Fables, Roadmaps, and Dancing Masters

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    May 13, 2021 by libroshombre

                Streets intersect, as do thoughts; mine recently crossed place names, sunflowers, and libraries. It began with watching my spouse’s …
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    Category: geology, names, placenames, teaching, topography | Tags: , , , , , ,

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