Reflections

“The original sin of the American intellectual is his desire to be popular.” That is clearly not one of the sins probably ever committed by Kevin Williamson, a National Review Institute fellow and author of the new book, The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics. We now live in an era […]

I have now completed 22 books in 2019 and four of them are reviewed below. Three of them were not on my original list when I began this year, but sometimes your experiences throughout a year take you onto new paths of discovery. One of the reasons I chose to read William Golding’s classic novel, […]

In the first five months of 2019, I have completed 10 books. That’s keeping me on my goal for 24 books this year. Four of those 10 books include fiction works and six were non-fiction. I read three books by Audible and all the others were either in physical print or on iBooks or Kindle […]

Someone the other day asked me if I had my 2019 Reading List available. Wow, someone is keeping up with me! I better not disappoint. After compiling my 2018 Reading List just ahead of January 1, 2018, I published the list of books I planned to read. As I said in that post, my goal was […]

2018 was a year of INSPIRATION. Yosemite. Graceland. Mount Rushmore. The Badlands. The West Wing. Israel. I ventured to places I had previously only dreamed of or seen in movies. My year began by turning 40 years old on January 13. My parents threw me a wonderful party that brought together so many friends and […]

It is the final days of 2018, and I just completed the 30-book reading challenge I gave myself at this time last year. In all, I read 20 of those books in either physical print book form or on my iPad (through iBooks or the Kindle app) and I “read” the other 10 books through […]

On September 14, I finally had the opportunity to see Jordan Peterson speak live and in person when he did so at the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center in Orlando. He told us a lot that night but the biggest take away was: take responsibility for yourself. And if you’re stuck, move (not necessarily in […]

It’s now mid-June as I write this, but as of June 1, 2018, I had completed the first 15 books in my 30-book reading challenge for 2018, meaning I am already half way to my goal with 7 months to spare. As mentioned in a previous blog post, between January and February, I read 8 […]

In the month of April, I was fortunate to be able to find the time to see seven films in the theater. In a typical year I usually only make it to an actual movie theater two or three times. I watch plenty of other films on Netflix, Amazon Prime, or HBO GO. But two […]

As of March 1, 2018, I have completed the first 8 books in my 30-book reading challenge for 2018. So far, all the books I have read were on my original list. In January, I completed Animal Farm (Audible) and Hillbilly Elegy (iBooks), and made my way about two-thirds the way through Gone With The […]