Category Archives: libraries

  1. Reasonable Resolutions, Personal Transformation, and Starting Over

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    January 23, 2024 by libroshombre

                An app called Blinkist costs $12.99 a month and is designed to help you achieve your New Year resolution …
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    Category: book reviews, books, librarians, libraries, libraries and librarians, race, races, racism, rare books | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  2. Coziness, Rhombuses, and Positive Chiromonia

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    January 23, 2024 by libroshombre

                Things like Alaska Airlines door plugs popping off make reading “The Meaning of Life is Surprisingly Simple” even more …
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    Category: gestures, languages, librarians, libraries, oration, psychology, public libraries, speech, words | Tags: , , ,

  3. Welkins, Peacocks, and Ferret-Legging

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    December 9, 2023 by libroshombre

                Once a young soccer star named Jimmy from Manchester, England played on a scholarship for UC Santa Barbara.  His …
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  4. Grammar, Forgery, and Forgotten Books

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    November 4, 2023 by libroshombre

                Once upon a time, around 150 BCE, there were two great kingdoms in the eastern Mediterranean that each possessed …
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    Category: archeology, book theft, books, forgery, libraries, library collections, reading, school librarians | Tags: , , , , ,

  5. Lynchings, Black Holes, and Horny Toads

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    July 10, 2023 by libroshombre

             There’s been some interesting overlapping on my radar that involve lynching, black holes, horny toads, and the frightening rise …
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    Category: book banning, books, libraries, race, races, racism, reptiles | Tags: , , , , , ,

  6. Alephs, Acrostics, and April

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    May 3, 2023 by libroshombre

                My handwriting’s always been bad, but these days it’s bordering on awful.  Perhaps I’m channeling my inner Phoenician for …
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    Category: alphabet, handwriting, libraries, poetry, poets, wordplay, words | Tags: , , , , , ,

  7. Relationships, Warm Puppies, and Happiness

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    May 3, 2023 by libroshombre

                A four-panel Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz that was destined for immortality ran on April 25, 1960.  First …
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    Category: books, cartoonists, comic strips, happiness, libraries, relationships | Tags: , , ,

  8. Lynching, Black Holes, and Horny Toads

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    April 18, 2023 by libroshombre

    There’s been some interesting overlapping on my radar that involve lynching, black holes, horny toads, and the frightening rise in …
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    Category: animals, banned books, book banning, books, libraries, library school, pubic libraries, race, racism | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  9. Holey Moses! The Spasmodics and Rod McKuen

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    November 1, 2022 by libroshombre

    LIBRARIAN COLUMN Contact Greg Hill, 907-479-4344                                                       November 10, 2022             Children of the early 50s were exposed to some awful …
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  10. Diapers, Jokes, and Mercy Seats

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    August 5, 2022 by libroshombre

                She was known as Maud to the Saxon serfs, and Matilda in the Latin by the nobility, but either …
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    Category: history, humor, jokes, libraries | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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