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. Worries, Words, and Monikers

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    July 31, 2024 by libroshombre

                “Don’t worry about the horse being blind,” coach John Madden instructed, “just load the wagon.”  His point was to …
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    Category: health, libraries, memory, names, Newspapers, psychology, pubic libraries, publishing | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

  4. Pecans, Guts, and Planck Lengths

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    July 31, 2024 by libroshombre

                My world got a little bigger when I learned about “The World’s Largest Collection of the Smallest Versions of …
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  5. 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: , , , , , , ,

  6. 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: , , , , , , ,

  7. 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: , , ,

  8. 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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    Category: blind, book banning, Christmas, games, holidays, hymns, librarians, libraries, music, religion | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

  9. UFOs, Conan, and Novel Circuits

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    December 8, 2023 by libroshombre

                “Which Presidents Have Seen UFOS?  Yep, It’s More Than one,” a Politco.com article by Garrett Graff that ran last …
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    Category: deep reading, fantasy, reading, reading brain, reading well, Robert E. Howard, science fiction | Tags: , , , ,

  10. Nailing Jello, Sifting Slang, Observatory Books

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    November 4, 2023 by libroshombre

    Some things are simply impossible, or the next thing to it, like nailing jello to the wall.  Cursory research didn’t …
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    Category: books, booksellers, bookstores, dictionaries, maps | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

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