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22Mar, 2021

this one wild and precious life by Sarah Wilson: A Review

Five Stars This year, I made a commitment to ditch my normal reading diet and pursue more exotic treasures. Sarah Wilson’s this one wild and precious life was a fit beginning. I finished a month ago, but I decided to [...]

21Mar, 2021

World Poetry Day: A Mother’s Garden

Mother’s garden, secret and circumscribed, grooms the smell of well-trodden moss to cloak the moonscaped sliver of silver beds. Scents of life teem with rotted death and swell.   Immortal in what is left, impervious to the fleeting beat of [...]

20Mar, 2021

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: A Review

Bill Gates comes to this issue with down-to-earth prose and common sense solutions. As someone who grew up in the 1970's when we first began REALLY talking about climate issues, his references to that time period should serve as a [...]

17Jun, 2020

If we don’t stand up for justice, then we will fall.

Should law and order trump protest and civil unrest? What about justice? The question unsettles me. It unsettled me when I was a very small girl in 1968, but I know a lot more now. Still…it feels a bit like [...]

13Apr, 2020

Reviewing the World of Sociopaths and Psychopaths

Snakes in Suits grew out of the authors “growing realization that the lack of specific knowledge about what constitutes psychopathic manipulation and deceit among businesspeople was the corporate con’s key to success.” Accordingly, the authors’ premise is “psychopaths do work [...]

6Apr, 2020

3 out of 5 stars This was an interesting read with some clear insight into the problems behind big data that I think most people intuit exists. I especially found his theory that individual "reputation" is controlled and harmed by [...]

16Oct, 2019

Was Columbus a Psychopath?

Why bother addressing the question the day after his day? Or after Indigenous People's Day? Why bother? Why bother understanding the story? Or ourselves for that matter. After all, it’s history. Shouldn’t our history, our stories, remain in the past. It [...]

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