I’ve often thought that the best way to measure a person’s character is to see how they act when (they…
I am part of the Goodreads Challenge and have committed to reading 300 books in 2019. This isn’t a big…
“Many of us are homeless in the West today.” – Johann Hari, Author (Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of…
I am reading two books now, SHARP: THE WOMEN WHO MADE AN ART OF HAVING AN OPINION by Michelle Dean…
For me, reading outside my comfort zone means following wisps of ideas and half-understood references in one topic to others. …
Ideally, we live by a moral or ethical code. I first began questioning the idea of virtue when I saw…
I came away from listening to Roxane Gay’s BAD FEMINIST ESSAYS with a bunch of questions based on the issues…
Author James Forman Jr. discussed his book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, with Amy Goodman on DemocracyNow…
I have never liked cleaning, though I love organizing. My many visits to gardens in May and June have me…
I grew up with alcoholic grandparents. My parents drank regularly. My sister swore off alcohol altogether. I drank in an…