Tag Archives: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

  1. Flogging, Peacocks, and Thicknesse

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    May 14, 2017 by libroshombre

      Teaching an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute class on Patrick O’Brian was more involved than anticipated. Having read (and listened …
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    Category: biography, books, reading, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , ,

  2. OLLI, Yancey, and X

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    May 3, 2017 by libroshombre

      The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), one of Fairbanks’ intellectual jewels like our public library, offers a wide array …
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    Category: etymology, interlibrary loan, language, Learning, libraries, Uncategorized, words | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  3. Swearing, Smiling, and Fuzzy Q. Jones

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    March 2, 2017 by libroshombre

    Swearing connotes honesty according to a study reported in “Social Psychology and Personality Science” by researchers from the US, UK, …
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    Category: cursing, smiling, swearing, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  4. Dashes, Dots, and Librarians

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    November 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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    Category: ellipsis, em dash, en dash, hyphen, libraries and librarians, lorem ipsum, pubic libraries, punctuation, Uncategorized, writing | Tags:

  5. Frustration, Anxiety, and Guff

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    October 19, 2015 by libroshombre

    “I was an accomplice in my own frustration,” the English playwright and screenwriter Peter Shaffer once wrote, and to some …
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    Category: libraries, shakespeare | Tags: , , , , ,

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