Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World, New York: Penguin Random House, 2013. Rita Moreno, narrator, Random House, Inc., 2013. Justice Sotomayor’s moving memoir is a perfect example of why biographies should make up a portion of a reader’s regular literary diet. Biographies and memoirs provide inspiration and motivation, either out of […]
Full disclosure: I actually prefer print books over e-books. I think every true bibliophile does. Jelia has offered a critique of the developing medium, so I have decided to write my defense of e-books. More disclosure, I have owned a Kindle for the last four years, and I have read the […]
Steve Inskeep, Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab, New York: Penguin Press, 2015. I readily admit that I am, in every sense of the word, an NPR junkie. I have tuned in more or less religiously since I found it the best way to […]
While “surfing” the world wide web today, I stumbled across Google’s tribute doodle for Duke Kahanamoku’s 125th birthday. Seeing this did not help reduce the desire to return to the Aloha state that I’ve had for the last several…days? weeks? months? ever minute since we left? Thank goodness for pictures, though, that can […]
When we finished with the rehearsal for Rachel’s wedding last November, the party headed out for the dinner at NBC Seafood Company in Pasadena. Just looking at the name of the restaurant on the wedding weekend time line, I assumed that it was some sort of fish and seafood restaurant. […]
My brilliant friend Josephine has tagged me to describe in a short list why I love being a Seventh-day Adventist. Our church has been debating some pretty heavy topics recently, and the resulting vitriol on social media tempts one to get frustrated with the church–or at least her “faithful” members. […]
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