Books

Wellness Prescription

I won a basket at an open house raffle event and in the basket was The Wellness Prescription Your Guide to Optimum Health by David H. Rahm, M.D. This is one post that is a book, has to do with fitness and food. The book outlines why as a society we have poor health (over […]

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4 Hour Work Week

When someone in the family purchases a Kindle book, it gets charged to my credit card. I can see what everyone is buying. When a charge came through for “The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich” by Timothy Ferriss, I knew DH had purchased it and maybe I should read

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Donovan Hohn

After reading Moby duck, I can see how Donovan Hohn been enthralled by and obsessed over the 28,000 bath toys lost at sea. I too became not so much enchanted with the route that the toys might have taken, but by the lengths and measures by which Hohn took to find them. Hohn spoke at

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Moby-Duck

UCSB Reads 2012 chose Moby-Duck: the true story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea, and of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists, and fools — including the author — who went in search of them by Donovan Hohn as their pick of the year. I had never participated in a group reading event. There were large

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Gate at the Stairs

While talking books with a neighbor, she suggested “A Gate at the Stairs” by Lorrie Moore. My reading card was full at the time with many titles lined up for the near future but I remembered that my neighbor had a book recommendation. When my list was dwindling and I was looking for the next

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