Buying wine has been an issue in our family for years. We have some friends who are serious wine connoisseurs (thanks to spell check I got this one right) and I’m a bit intimated, although eve...Read More
A few months ago I read The Call of the Mall by Paco Underhill. I’d had the book around for several years but had never gotten to it. My interest in shopping is mostly intellectual. Findin...Read More
I just read the book American Buffalo by Steve Rinella and reviewed it on Amazon. It is very rare that I read an entire book in one day but this book was filled with interesting information about th...Read More
Now this is a good idea that is being done well: http://www.acomplaintfreeworld.org/ I haven’t read the book but I like the concept. One of their ideas is to work to be complaint free for 25 d...Read More
On our trip to Maine and New England last month we visited four different small museums. As a result we unintentionally made it a focus of our trip. Henry Moore at Storm King By the time we realized w...Read More
In 2005 a contingent of Codger Divers went to Catalina on a dive trip. The famed Casino in Avalon Gene, Howard Harte and I dove with Harte’s son and niece. Our divemaster was Ron Moore. Ron is...Read More
If you listen to the politicians the economy is terrible. But if you look at the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog you have to believe that there are quite a few people with some extra money to spend on s...Read More
This is a new book by Mark Krikorian the president of The Center for Immigration Studies. In my review on Amazon I wrote: “The New Case Against Immigration” is not a “new case”...Read More
Ben Wattenberg an author and thinker who has influenced me greatly over the years has a new book. I highly recommend it. He also wrote Fewer that is one of the books that created the philosophical und...Read More
Travian is my current favorite time wasting computer game. Lillian recommended it to me in May. She knew that I like games. In the past I’ve played Freecell, Spider Solitaire, Civilization I...Read More