My name is J. Arens, and I have a terrible time focusing on one project at a time. (I’ll pause here for the obligatory smirk so you’re not distracted) I’m always looking for ways to expand my writing, authoring, and printing empire.
After years of deep-diving rabbit holes in the most random corners of the internet to find something out for (usually) one sentence in a book or short story. I have amassed a lot of interesting facts that I have nowhere to talk about.
If you’re interested in spelunking into random bits of history that no one talks about, finding out when some of the products we use every day were first created, and following me around (in the literary sense—please don’t actually start stalking. That’s not cool) as I try out things like recipes from the 1920s and 1930s.
This is the place for you!
Introducing:
The One With The Catalog Library
a place where new information about the past (and it’s blending with the future where we now live) comes alive.
Currently, my plan is to write an article once a week that will highlight random things that I find exciting. That means there will be fifty-two different articles penned by yours truly.
Hopefully that means that I’ll be able to sprinkle a bit of my love for history around my little corner of the internet.
It’s also important that I mention right here and right now that any products that I mention I am not sponsored by.
I just like them.
I use them personally. It takes a lot for me to mention things to people when I like a product. I usually spend quite a bit of time with a product before I recommend it to someone.
I will include links on where to buy things if I mention a certain product, only for the ease of you not having to chase all around the internet to find what I mentioned. But that is all.
Again.
No sponsorships here.
I’m not a race car team.
Just an author with a dream, and the want to share my knowledge with everyone that might be searching for some of the things that I did. Or, who might be curious about what it was like when The Greatest Generation and The Silent Generation were in their prime. (Though to be fair, it would mostly be the Greatest Generation because they were older than a decade during the Great Depression)
My plan is to put up a new post every single week on Friday night. (I’m not sure what time, because to be honest, I’m not a good planner, I barely know what I’m doing in twenty minutes, much less a week from now.)
I don’t plan on these being very long. But as I type those words I laugh a bit because, honestly, the number of times that I’ve planned on something being short and then it goes over ‘long’ is…well basically always.
While I can’t promise to keep things short, short, I can promise that I’m going to do my best to keep things interesting and as accurate as possible. Because otherwise it would be a waste of your time and mine.
I’m sure that some people are wondering ‘why catalog library’? Honestly, the simplest answer is for two reasons (so…maybe not the simplest answer…) Anyway…
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I’m frankly old enough to remember the old card catalogs in the libraries, and I loved them. I thought they were the coolest things. You could find anything in them!
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What better way to nod to the organizational prowess of librarians than to organize all my random historical deep-diving and product spelunking?!
Essentially, it made the most logical sense to me, and it seemed to fit with the general feel of what I’m doing here.
And, one more time before we get started:
No sponsorships here.
I just like these products.
If something changes in that realm, it will be noted.
There. That’s enough ado I think. Let’s get this show on the road!
Thank you for spending time in the Catalog Library!