Category Archives: animals
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Nanoparticles, Hamdogs, and Freaking Out
Leave a commentMay 13, 2022 by libroshombre
Our family’s Kentucky Derby brunch turned out to be fertile ground for intellectual speculation, ranging from sandwiches to parasocial …
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Memories, Rats, and Hair Books
Leave a commentJanuary 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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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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Meadows of Gold, House of Wisdom, and Lovelorn Rhinos
Leave a commentNovember 19, 2019 by libroshombre
LIBRARIAN COLUMN Contact Greg Hill, 479-4344 Oct. 31, 2019 My car’s a mini-bookmobile carrying a variety of books to match …
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Russian Reticence, Doggie Brains, and the Dewey Decimal System
Leave a commentSeptember 14, 2016 by libroshombre
The Russian government could use some lessons in polite communications. Beside their proclivity for hacking, leaking, and mendaciousness, they’re …
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Cheeks, Civility, and Locofocos
Leave a commentMarch 21, 2016 by libroshombre
Cats and dogs are very different creatures, yet, with some exceptions, they can get along together civilly, as evidenced …
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Shakespeare’s Tongue, Dog Listeners, and Gregarious Cockroaches
Leave a commentFebruary 17, 2015 by libroshombre
David Crystal’s book, “Think on My Words: Exploring Shakespeare’s Language,” has been on my reading table lately. The section on …
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Dogs, Dr. Seuss, and the Moral Molecule
Leave a commentMay 1, 2014 by libroshombre
Most of my life’s been spent in the pleasurable company of dogs, and, like Mark Twain, I believe “The dog …
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