The Up Side of Down
Megan McArdle has written The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success for anybody who has ever failed. Which means she has written it for all of us. The premise…
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Reading Books So You Don’t Have To!
Enjoyed several fun books in the first quarter of 2014, so I wanted to list them here. It’s a fairly short list for me — just 25 books. Quality over quantity, perhaps? My favorites (and…
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So you think you’re a writer?
Four years ago I took a month-long sabbatical to consider where to invest future energies. Great friends offered advice, shared their ideas, and asked me tough questions. One of the questions often asked was, “Why not…
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The Bully Pulpit
Last year I wrote about my favorite books of the year and mentioned The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin as the one most deserving of a Pulitzer Prize. At that time I had not…
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2013 Reading List
Another year, another 100+ books. My reading list for 2013 was varied and fun. I already posted my favorites here, but below is a complete list of all the books I read this year. You…
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The World Atlas of Wine
My brother-in-law gave me a great Christmas gift: The World Atlas of Wine for my iBook reader. Written by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson, this beautifully done book made my Christmas evening. If you love…
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Best Books of 2013
Wow, the year has flown by! I can’t believe it’s already time to list my favorite books of 2013. Now remember, this is highly subjective, very biased, and aiming to to be on the fun…
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Junkyard Planet
Despite the title of this blog, I did not grow up in an actual junkyard. It’s might be splitting hairs, but my family owned automotive dismantling centers (or simply wrecking yards). To most folks it…
