Collecting My Thoughts

Recently I watched a book interview with Anson Frericks on C-Span Book TV, "Last call for Bud Light." It was excellent and I learn...

I hate to read names in novels and not be able to pronounce them. It slows me down, and I'm already a very slow reader. So I'm readi...

I'm reading "Blindsight is 2020; Reflections on Covid policies from dissident scientists, philosophers, artists, and more" by ...

I've been reading "The personal librarian" the story of J.P. Morgan's curator of his rare books and manuscript collection,...

Robin DiAngelo has made a fortune being a racist. She writes in White Fragilit y, that “All white people are invested in and collude with ra...

How do you survive birth as a still-born baby in the Missouri Ozarks, learn hard work as a kid on the farm, and obtain a college education ...

Our book club (I joined in 2000 when I retired, but I think the group has been meeting about 35 years) met via Zoom yesterday for a discussi...

I managed to live to the ripe old age of 81 and had never heard of the Halifax Explosion of Dec. 6, 1917. Until the atom bomb, it was the la...

John Woo, a Korean American, is the "wrong" kind of minority--he supports the President, although he didn't start out that...

My office was cleaned out to the bare walls and moved to the laundry room to make way for our son’s hospital bed and supplies. At first the ...

I am offered a lot of books to review, and occasionally I accept. If you've been baffled by adolescent behavior--your pupils, your kids,...

It's a wonderful day to sit on the deck with a cuppa and enjoy the blue sky and rustling leaves with a good book. But because it's s...

Just finished "Lillian Boxfish takes a walk," by Kathleen Rooney (2017). It's a novel inspired by the life and work of Margare...

This title is on the review list for the Lakeside Women’s Club this summer, so I decided to check it out.  I’ve been reading it on the porch...

This Friday the Lakeside Women's Club book review is "Nomandland; surviving America in the 21st century" by Jessica Bruder. (2...

Chris Arnade, a Wall Street bond trader, had a pretty lofty view of himself. He was an atheist, and a progressive. This is from his new book...

Richard Vedder, "Restoring the Promise; Higher Education in America" his final points. "College administrative staff oft...

According to a letter I found, I bought this book in 2001 from the wonderful used book store (now closed) Acorn in Grandview because of th...

On today’s prayer list (via e-mail) from PDHC, I noticed a request for the 8 women participating in the post abortion recovery program, Livi...

  At least I think it was 1949. . . that’s the year the book was published. This book was made into a movie in 1952 starring Cary Grant an...