Category Archives: books
My 2022 Book Report
For 15 years, I have been logging my reading at LibraryThing, so I decided to peruse my statistics and share some recommendations. Favorite Books of 2022 Reading Rate I have been reading more books in recent years, up from a … Continue reading
Pandemic Pastimes
December 5, 2020 Wendy and I are concluding the ninth month of a contracted lifestyle during the COVID-19 pandemic. I expect we face at least six more months of daily masking, distancing, and hand hygiene at work. We’re probably going … Continue reading
Can we be hopeful in the wake of the storm?
May 3, 2020 “I must confess that I found myself almost hopeless in the wake of the storm.” So wrote Dr. J.C. Taylor, the health officer of Rogers County, Oklahoma, of his feelings after the 1918 flu pandemic. What lessons … Continue reading
Loaves and Fishes
In travels over the years with my father, on my own, and now with Wendy, I have repeatedly encountered remnants of the Fred Harvey company. It was a chain of restaurants, hotels, and other hospitality businesses alongside the Santa Fe … Continue reading
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
May 27, 2019 The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear. So wrote John Singer, a deaf-mute, in a letter he never sent, to his best friend, a fellow deaf-mute who was illiterate, dumb, selfish, and uncaring. … Continue reading
Meador Manor 