Through the Eye of a Needle
One of the constant themes in my life — and the one I’d focus on if I ever wrote a book — is how we balance wealth, giving, and our faith. We live in the…
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Being and Doing
This is the time of year college seniors seek my advice about jobs and careers. Sometimes I have good leads, often I’m clueless how to advise them. So I’m always looking for insights that I…
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Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #10
So we begin the top ten countdown in this series, and I start it off with a great one. Shantaram: A Novel by Gregory David Roberts is simply brilliant. It might be my favorite novel…
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Social Investment & Giving
Enormous resources are poured into “social investment” these days. The definition of the term isn’t always clear, but the idea is utilizing the power of the economic system to improve the lives of the poor…
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Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #11
Books can create different worlds that take us to new places. But books can also recreate old worlds that remind us of what once was. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett took me to an…
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We Have a Winner
The votes are in, the numbers have been tallied, and we have a winner. The next wine label name will be … drumroll … Rosie Red. It had the most votes by far. Almost twice…
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Reflections on a Long Month
It’s been an interesting season here in the Goble household. My daughter flew to the East Coast, Europe, and on to Thailand nearly six weeks ago. Soon after my son flew to Thailand to meet…
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Antifragile
Rarely do I read a book that puts words to ideas that I wasn’t aware I had. Rarely do I like a book by an author with an immense ego and insults all kinds of…