Category Archives: public libraries

  1. Nose Blindness, Toilet Plumes, and a Golden Nose

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    September 21, 2024 by libroshombre

                Ah, lovely serendipity abounds!  Reading about nose blindness led to researching Tycho Brahe’s golden nose and wound up exposing a lot …
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    Category: odors, public libraries, senses, smells, toilets | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  2. Tomfoolery, Justice, and Imprisoning Librarians

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    September 21, 2024 by libroshombre

                Around 2,000 years ago Cicero, the Roman lawyer and statesman, called justice “the crowning glory of the virtues.”  If so, how …
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    Category: books, censorship, civility, crime, justice, law, librarians, libraries, public libraries, punishment, school libraries, theft | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  3. Tomato Screams, Whale Lips, and Civility

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    June 3, 2024 by libroshombre

    Epictetus, that old Greek Stoic, pointed out that “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen …
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    Category: communication, English language, libraries, music, plants, public libraries, speech | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  4. 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: , , ,

  5. Riots, Festivals, and Paperbacks

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    July 21, 2023 by libroshombre

                Many great minds have contemplated the dynamics of large groups of humans.  H.L. Mencken once said, “No one in …
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    Category: books, demagoguery, festivals, fiction, hardbacks, magazines, paperbacks, public libraries, publishing, science fiction | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  6. Lynchings, Black Holes, and Horny Toads

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    May 3, 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: animals, Black history, book banning, books, censorship, crime, libraries and librarians, library school, public libraries, school librarians, school libraries | Tags: , , , ,

  7. Relationships, Warm Puppies, and Happiness

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    April 18, 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: comic strips, love, pets, public libraries | Tags: , , , ,

  8. Scherpstekendevliegs, Anticipation, and Unreadable Books

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    July 9, 2022 by libroshombre

                Anticipation can be excruciating, but also sweet, as A.A. Milne illustrated in writing “‘Well,’ said Pooh, ‘what I like …
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    Category: baseball, insects, libraries, public libraries, sports, tools | Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

  9. Ashurbanipal’s Library, Queen Readers, and the Intolerably Stupid

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    May 23, 2022 by libroshombre

                Once upon a time, back when literacy was really rare, no one ever read silently to themselves, and all …
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    Category: archeology, books, librarians, library history, library school, literacy, public libraries, reading, royalty, science | Tags: , , , , ,

  10. Band Names, Numbers and Elephants

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    March 19, 2022 by libroshombre

                The Lone Tones is the name of the acapella doowop group in Austin that I’ve sung with for forty-plus …
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    Category: autobiography, libraries, libraries and librarians, musicians, numbers, public libraries | Tags: , , , ,

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