Category Archives: writing
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Blackwing 602, Bugs Bunny, and Privacy
Leave a commentAugust 5, 2018 by libroshombre
What do Leonard Bernstein, John Steinbeck, Quincy Jones, E.B. White, Eugene O’Neill, Archibald MacLeish, Loony Tunes animator Chuck Jones, and …
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Service Animals, Sheepskins, and Marc Antony’s Gift
Leave a commentMarch 23, 2017 by libroshombre
No one at my library school ever mentioned a number of items that would later loom large. For example, …
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Writers, Editors, and Mean Parrots
Leave a commentOctober 31, 2016 by libroshombre
Stephen Ambrose, author of “Band of Brothers” and “Undaunted Courage,” once noticed that, “There are many more want-to-be writers …
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Deep Reading, Lizard Feet, and Tough Cookies
Leave a commentAugust 30, 2016 by libroshombre
Those immersed in the reading life know an engrossing dance of words and concepts can induced by good writing, …
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Dashes, Dots, and Librarians
Leave a commentNovember 17, 2015 by libroshombre
The beginning of many aspects of the writing arts include librarians. Take Butehamen, the next-to-last chief scribe in ancient Egypt’s …
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Fat Ladies, Receipts, Recipes, and Love Talk
Leave a commentNovember 10, 2015 by libroshombre
“Two Fat Ladies” is a delightful BBC cooking show featuring a couple of chubby upper-crust cooks who cruise around on …
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Morphemes, Bashi-Bazouks, and Grawlixes
Leave a commentJanuary 30, 2014 by libroshombre
Libraries, those magnificent repositories of knowledge, are brimming with words of all sorts: written, spoken, sung, and projected. This is …
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