Do you want to know the length of your life? (NOTE: Some of the links in this blog are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase on Amazon. Thank you for supporting my writing in this manner. More details here.) ***** It was in the spring of the year, March actually, that life got turned upside down in the United States with the arrival of the Pandemic and the need to quarantine. So when this book opens in ... continue reading...
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Fifth Tuesday Report – August, 2023
A Special Report for Book lovers This is kinda crazy: According to Google Analytics, people from 103 countries have read my blogs and book reviews over the last 90 days! This fact impacts today’s Newsletter. In these Newsletters, I always share my five favorite books from the last quarter. Today I will also share the five most popular reviews from Google Analytics. And as always, in the case that I have read other books by one of the authors, I will list those titles as well. Thus, there are 14 ... continue reading...
The 5th Tuesday of January, 2023
A Special Report for Book Lovers Image of author from Amazon If you have followed these Fifth Tuesday Reports, you know I enjoy reading Ron Charles’s weekly Book Club in The Washington Post. In his January 6th edition, he talked about bestseller lists and reminded us that there is no single bestseller list. Different publications look at different sales data to create their own unique list. The Washington Post, for example, uses data on sales at indie bookstores. Recently, however, he asked a ... continue reading...
The Wisdom of Holding Your Tongue
With a Flashback to the Chatty Cathy Doll Story #1: Alec Baldwin In October, 2021, Alec Baldwin was holding a prop gun on a movie set. The gun fired killing one person and harming another. According to an opinion column in The New York Times written by Farhad Manjoo, Baldwin told police he’d do whatever they requested. This included sitting for an interview. At the interview he talked and talked, answering questions and sharing his own theories on the incident. This was all logical to me. ... continue reading...
Adulting: Like Folding a Fitted Sheet, No One Really Knows How to Do It
A story on the Merriam-Webster website tells the history of the word “adulting.” Used as a verb, it means “to do the things that adults regularly have to do.” This usage began on Twitter in 2008 or 2009, as shown by this sample tweet: “[He] cannot possibly be an adulterer. [He] barely knows how to adult.” Many people learned the term in 2011 when a popular blog called Adulting began publication. Written by journalist, Kelly Williams Brown, its success merited a book in 2013: Adulting: How to ... continue reading...
I Didn’t Hear That. Can You Say it Again?
Hearing Aids: Much Ado About Nothing True confession time: I have started to wear hearing aids. It’s been a journey of denial, fear, and depression, with a little worry about stigma thrown in for good measure. But ultimately, here I am, hearing again, which is quite amazing! And this is what I have to say about the long journey to get here – it was much ado about nothing! Here’s my story… After a decades-long hiatus in my yoga practice, I attended a class recently. The hour of exercise was ... continue reading...
