When I got engaged, my friend Susan took me out for lunch and gave me the best advice I ever got. It was a long time ago, so I may not be remembering accurately, but I think she even tagged this advice as, "A little recommendation that will save your sanity." It was challenging advice …
One of the things that made pandemic isolation so traumatic for some people is that they are the people who tend to set limitations on themselves. (I am one of these people so I speak from experience.) If you are someone whose general tendency is to say, I can’t do that because… then pandemic isolation …
In the first of the original Pern trilogy, The Dragonriders of Pern, Anne McCaffery established a culture that was facing a scalability problem. Pern – the planet on which the series takes place – experiences a recurring natural disaster that happens pretty much like clockwork. Every X days, death rains down from the skies. The …
Westerners tend to think of history as linear, like a stock market chart. History is progressing, things are constantly getting better and, if things start to get worse, it’s the start of a regression that will only get worse and worse. It’s at time like this that I like to read books about the past …
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