Category Archives: Books

It’s Library Week 2023

Posted on April 23, 2023 by swabby429

Reading and research have been integrated into my life since early childhood. For example, one minor instance comes to mind. I had become curious about the song “Yankee Doodle”. Why did he call the feather in his hat “macaroni”? What … Continue reading →

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1944 …Floral Friday

Posted on September 30, 2022 by swabby429

While dusting the bookshelves, I noticed an old florist book that I haven’t consulted in at least a decade. I had purchased it on eBay to better know what types of arrangements were used when my old vases had been … Continue reading →

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The Reference Book

Posted on October 19, 2021 by swabby429

Our public library recently held its annual book sale. These are held so as to help cull their collection of duplicate books and to sell donated items and to raise funds for the library association. Patrons were permitted to buy … Continue reading →

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I Like To Read

Posted on March 2, 2021 by swabby429

We learn by example, by listening, and by reading. That’s the truism I learned early on. It didn’t have to be drummed into my head, though. The statement was an affirmation of my personal experience. Some of my earliest boyhood … Continue reading →

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Balanced Living

Posted on January 17, 2021 by swabby429

One doesn’t need to browse the Web very long in order to stumble across some expert or authority writing or talking about the need for balance in our lives. Certainly, there are numerous websites, books, and seminars that focus on … Continue reading →

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Time Tourism

Posted on December 8, 2020 by swabby429

In 1952, Ray Bradbury published a short story called “A Sound of Thunder”. The tourist, Eckles, takes a time travel journey to the age of the dinosaurs in search of a Tyrannosaurus rex. He was ordered not to deviate from … Continue reading →

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Pondering Character

Posted on October 18, 2020 by swabby429

I heard the comparison during a late night interview shows on a network radio station back in the day. It may have been with Larry King or one of the other big-name broadcast journalists of the early 1980s. The interviewer’s … Continue reading →

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