Category Archives: names

  1. 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: , , , , , ,

  2. Browsing Shelves, Sacrificing Children, and Virile Bridegrooms

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    September 18, 2020 by libroshombre

                Browsing well-stocked libraries is a booklover’s delight and one many of us are missing while our public library’s shelves …
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    Category: legends, libraries, names, politics, public libraries | Tags: , , , , ,

  3. Ouija Boards, Gratitude, and Dogs

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    December 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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    Category: cats, dogs, library fines, names, pets, public libraries, Uncategorized | Tags: , , ,

  4. Nicknames, Pseudonyms, and Imposters

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    April 7, 2019 by libroshombre

    The Legends of Austin Soccer, an annual reunion of ancient soccer players, meets, so nicknames have been on my mind. …
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    Category: names, nicknames, pseudonyms, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , ,

  5. Bond, Bananas, and Humperdink Fangboner

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    March 23, 2018 by libroshombre

      Nineteenth century poet and reformer Helen Hunt Jackson once wrote, “Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each …
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    Category: names, words | Tags: , , , , , ,

  6. T, Temple, and Lady Betty

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    April 24, 2017 by libroshombre

      It might have been learning about Richard “Waterfront” Brown during Osher Lifelong Learning’s Fairbanks history class that got me …
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    Category: biography, character, librarians, names, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , ,

  7. Possums, Trees, and Chairs

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    November 11, 2016 by libroshombre

      Possums and library trees have been on my radar a lot lately. Possums are certainly ugly creatures, but those …
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    Category: libraries, names, Uncategorized, writers | Tags: , , , , ,

  8. Gobblefunk, Gold Cards, and Blind Boy Groot

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    June 15, 2016 by libroshombre

      Roald Dahl, creator of Willie Wonka and James and the Giant Peach, liked naming things so much that the …
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    Category: dictionaries, musicians, names, odd words, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , ,

  9. Stimulations, Contraction, and Boney-eared Assfish

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    April 11, 2016 by libroshombre

    Some periodicals provide close to the same serendipial stimulation browsing the shelves as a well-stocked library. But where the library’s …
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    Category: English language, invective, language, magazines, names, Uncategorized, words | Tags: , , , ,

  10. Pronouns, Pseudonyms, and the Curiosolites

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    March 31, 2015 by libroshombre

    Humans just have to name the objects and creatures we encounter, including ourselves. How we choose those names, even pronouns, …
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    Category: names, parts of speech, reference librarians | Tags: , , , , , ,

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