When I saw that actor Patrick Stewart had penned a memoir, I was eager to read it. Being the huge Star Trek fan that I am, it seemed like a no-brainer. While […]
Book Review – Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart – 80 Years in a Life
Book Review – Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
This was a book that I really wanted to like. The author had made the subject his life’s work, and when he was dying from cancer, he set about to get the […]
Book Review: Adoption Healing … a path to recovery by Joe Soll LCSW – All Babies Are Loveable
This book is not about finger pointing. It is about learning from our mistakes so that we can perhaps reduce suffering in the future, especially for those who are separated from their […]
Book Review: Hidden Mickeys: A Field Guide to Walt Disney World’s Best Kept Secrets by Steven Barrett – Slow Down and Find the Hidden Mickeys at Walt Disney World
Some of us go to Disney World a lot. Okay, that might be an understatement. Regardless, there are many things that keep people coming back again and again. One of those things […]
Book Review: The True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
I picked up this book while planning our cruise through the Panama Canal. One of the excursions we chose was to a cacao plantation and chocolate “factory” and I was curious about […]
Book Review: Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen – A Must-Read!
The title of this book is a bit unfair. It’s not that the teachers intended to teach what they did, it’s that they were sort of forced to by the textbook makers […]
Book Review: Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever by Judge Judy Sheindlin – You Go Girl!
I’ve long maintained that if we really want to change the way things are in the world, we mothers have to change how we are raising our children. Specifically, to have our […]
Book Review: Chicken Soup for the Baseball Fan’s Soul – Inspiration During the Hot-Stove Months
A love of baseball is something in the blood. If nothing else, I am living testimony to that. I was adopted when I was seven days old. My parents had no sports […]
AudioBook Review: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn – The Most Important Book You’ve Probably Never Read
Truth be told, I haven’t “read” it yet either. I ended up purchasing the audiobook and listening to it over the course of a few months. It’s hard to digest rapidly, much […]
Book Review: Crimes Against Nature by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Can Our Planet Still Be Saved?
In the flurry of books released before the 2004 Presidential election, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Crimes Against Nature got lost in the shuffle. And that’s a shame. Instead of the usual unsubstantiated […]
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