The Rose Garden at Encanto Park in Phoenix is not the Huntington Gardens in Pasadena and we got there after the first bloom. Which because of the heat may be the only bloom in Phoenix. We did catch th...Read More
John Marshall by Richard Brookhiser John Marshall was an aide to George Washington during the revolution. He was not a signer of the Declaration of Independence and he was not a delegate to the Consti...Read More
Let There Be Water By Seth M. Siegel Because I have lived for the last fifty plus years in places where there isn’t enough water I read a lot of books about water. Some are better than others. T...Read More
De Gaulle by Julian Jackson Having read quite a few histories of the 20th Century including a run of Winston Churchill books in 2018 I was pleased to hear about Jackson’s De Gaulle biography. It...Read More
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi The Water Knife is a dystopian novel about a time in the near future when water wars are breaking out throughout the Western USA. The action is compelling and vivid...Read More
The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu is an excellent history of advertising from Posters in Paris through the newspapers, radio, television and finally the internet, soc...Read More
This is a very large piece of art in the Atlanta Airport. And if you click through you can find out what it is made of and what it says without going to Atlanta....Read More
Those Angry Days by Lynne Olson I read Those Angry Days in my history book club and I enjoyed it and learned from it. It was an interesting perspective on the 1930’s and the strength of the isol...Read More
The End of History by Francis Fukuyama I tried to read The End of History back in the 1990s when it first came out and failed. I couldn’t follow the arguments at all and gave up. This time I l...Read More
I used to suffer from C.R.S. (Can’t Remember Stuff) but it has gotten worse and now I’ve been diagnosed with: CRAFT Can’t Remember a F***ing Thing Usage of the “F” word h...Read More