I’m actually pretty busy with a bunch of stuff–among which is an essay on ‘living in quality‘ that should be here soon–but I haven’t been posting much. People like you, though, who can’t get enough of me, might want something else to read. And so, it occurs to me to mention Graum. Remember him? Little [...]
In a classic case of “just how much do modern conveniences really simplify our lives,” I got back from work today and thought I’d check my email before starting in on my part of Graum’s story. Only I couldn’t check my email. The internet worked fine–that’s normally my only email problem–but Google wouldn’t let me [...]
When I was ‘only’ reading, it was easy to decide to learn to speed read. Without even meaning to, I found myself reading about speed readers. I read about Douglas MacArthur. . . who, as it happens, was a voracious reader and managed a book in an evening. I’d love to manage a book every [...]
I like Terry Pratchett. A lot. I love his books. But I can’t really read them all back-to-back. I intersperse them with more conventional novels. (That way you can re-appreciate his Pratchett-ness over and over again.) Like, for example, I’ll be finishing up Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, soon, and wanted to grab [...]
I’m reading “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” now (and no, I’m not trying to read as fast as I can. . . when I try, the wonderfully ‘oral’ narrative loses something). It’s a book that bills itself as ‘an inquiry into values.’ One of those philosophy novels. I love it. I think I’m [...]