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  Snoopy typing "It was a dark and stormy night."  Snoopy's unvarying opening line harkens back to 1830 when the English write...

While I may have heard of Buckminster (more commonly known as Bucky) Fuller in the distant past, what made me grow curious about him was a v...

  eriklarsonbooks.com/book/the-splendid-and-the-vile/ I'm now reading The Splendid and the Vile  by Erik Larson. As I remember from read...

Seven years ago I posted  It's a meaningful life  about Viktor Frankl's famous book, Man's Search for Meaning.  This year, anoth...

This is not an actual review of James E. Ryan's book  Wait, What?: And Life's Other Essential Questions. You can read 70 or so of th...

Did you know that the brother of the man who killed Abraham Lincoln saved the president's son's life at a train station in NJ? That ...

A few weeks ago, I visited the New York Historical Society's Armory Show exhibit . Though it opened in 2013 for the 100 year anniversar...

The crowd waiting to get in to the Frick on Sunday, November 17th Today I visited the  Frick Collection  to see the special exhibit on view ...

Do you find happiness surrounded by the throngs of people and noise in a club?  Or do you find in silent contemplation of the beauty nature?...

I usually remember quite a bit from books I've read even years later. Sometimes I may forget the title and start reading a book only to...

I checked out The Uncommon Reader, a novella by Alan Bennett published in 2007 in part because the title echoed the title of this blog. If y...

Within the space of a number of weeks, I read  three books on introverts. I started with most recent and most publicized within that categor...

Zappos.com is often presented as the paradigm of branding success. In Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose , Tony ...

 The full title of Lise Eliot’s book really explains her intent: Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into TroublesomeGaps -...