What do you do when the facts of history conflicts with beliefs about history? How do you reset understanding to reflect what actually happened? Sometimes what we believe happened takes a spot in our heart - it could be a warm spot or a spot of anger - and you become fixed on that understanding. …
Continue reading 365 Books: A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
When I was Christmas present shopping - my family all gets books and, after all these years, have learned to pretend to like it - I noticed a cover that caught my eye, My Heart is a Chainsaw, which I'll write about later, maybe tomorrow. It got me started on a Final Girl reading binge. …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
I went to 6 different schools from K-9. My parents, introverts both, didn't teach me how to navigate the social cues at school. And I often had to learn the hard way how to deal with people until I finally figured it out - 30 years later. In 8th grade - a period of my …
Continue reading 365 Books: I am Running Away Today by Lisa Desimini
Yesterday I described a book that is brilliant for its simplicity. This one is wonderful for its complexity. And yet the emotions are simple. A kid has an opportunity to swap something useless (his dad, who does nothing but sit around, reading the newspaper - useless!) for something cool (two goldfish). When mom gets home, …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
Picture this: you are walking down a hallway at work. Coming toward you, from the other end of the hallway, is a colleague. Your eyes meet and dart away. You have already seen them that day and greeted them Good Morning but now what do you do? It would seem rude to walk past them …
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