Collecting My Thoughts

 For book club this month I'm reading Jon Meacham's "And there was light; Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle." (Ran...

"Kara, a fellow at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health and at the Kennedy School, has been researching modern-day slavery, ...

Each May our book club selects nine titles for the next September through May reading period. And today was that day.   This year’s selectio...

As my friends and family know, I've been writing this blog for almost 20 years (began October 2003). That's how I met some nice peop...

I’ve been cleaning off my desk this morning, tossing old church bulletins, returned Christmas cards with the wrong address,  articles to rea...

I'm not up on publishing cycles, but yesterday I received at least 10 review offers, including children's books, interview opportuni...

  I get about four offers a day to review a book the marketer will send me. For all I know these marketers are all the same person, just u...

Most of us at one time have said, or thought, something like: “So I procrastinate, it’s not like it’s hurting anyone!” “Enough about you,...

Everyday I am offered 2-3 books to review and mention on one of my blogs or on Facebook. These are free, and rarely worth keeping or reco...

Shelby Steele’s book, Shame. Reviewed by Joseph Epstein “Liberalism in the twenty-first century,” Mr. Steele writes, “is, for the most ...

I’ve been living in Columbus since 1967, and I admit that until today I’d never hear of Jerome, Ohio, which is just up the road near Dublin,...

Recommended by a Canadian! "As a pro-America conservative Canadian, I enjoyed this book so much. Lots of answers to some very confusing...

Finding Leslie I found a terrific reviewer at Amazon this morning, her name is Leslie and that led me to her blog! Oh happy day--a reviewer ...

The future of conservative books I've often written about my frustration with the collection policies at my public library, UAPL. It...

I really miss this As a former Veterinary Medicine Librarian (1986-2000) and before that an Agriculture Librarian (1978-1982) I really miss...

True Christian Freedom by Samuel Bolton At one of my other blogs, I posted a year long Puritan reading list challenge. I'm pretty wea...

Entrepreneurship Next to diphtheria and ophthalmology, I think entrepreneurship is one of our most frequently misspelled words--I misspelle...

Vivian and Johnny Cash Today I had a stack of books and CDs to return to the library, so I was browsing the new book shelf and came across...

The B Word "How often do we hear and use the B word? We're really busy . Can you think of the last time you asked a friend how s...