Do you have problems? Any problems? Do you need advice? About anything? Have you ever wished, probably around 2am, that you could sit at a table with a mom (maybe your mom, maybe the imaginary mom you wish you had) who would make you a cup of tea or coffee and sit across from you and call you honeybun and be so nice and believe in you so much but also tell you exactly what you needed to do to get your shit straight? Surely […]
The Book MY Younger Self Could’ve Used in My First Poly Relationship
Well, hell. This was a deceptive little book. It looks pretty slim and comes in at a scant 140 pages, which, I mean…after reading the unabridged Les Miserablès is downright tiny. And this is also a companion to a different book, The Husband Swap, but the same author which recounts her experience in polyamory and in a quad where she eventually wound up swapping husbands with another woman, but not before lots of heartache and personal growth. Which, for anyone familiar with polyamory, is…pretty much […]
“There is no vision without vulnerability.”
I try, whenever I can, to dare greatly. I didn’t think of it this way until I started reading Brené Brown’s book “Daring Greatly: How The Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”. She opens with a quote from Theodore Roosevelt’s speech “Citizenship in a Republic” that explains where she got the idea for the title of the book: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where […]
Terry loves writing autobiographies!
The title to this book misled me a bit. It sounds like a self-help/relationships/gender studies book, but Manhood is about ninety-five percent Terry Crews memoir, and only about five percent advice about being a good guy. This frustrated me a bit; it felt like a little bit of a bait and switch from the publisher or Crews. Celebrity autobiographies seem more prevalent than I can remember, and they vary widely in quality and readability. While this one was not what I expected, it ultimately did […]
How to find the glory of the cosmos in your TPS reports.
I earned my undergraduate degree from a liberal arts school that was Christian. I liked it. It encouraged students to view the world and act in a holistic way. How does faith influence your business ethics? How does faith influence your understanding of the importance of the environment? How does a person’s faith influence political action? We wrestled with a lot of questions like that. One of my favorite courses was called Spiritual Pilgrims. The course encouraged a lot of practices and traditions that at […]
I feel the need…the need for speed!
Full disclosure: I was drinking one night and accidentally signed up for Kindle Unlimited. My motor skills and reading comprehension were such that I tapped on a wrong button and ended up with a service that I didn’t intend to purchase. However, I went down the KU rabbithole with glee. My first book rental was a Wonder Woman history that I previously reviewed. My second and third downloads, records show, were books on speed reading. One of the books that I downloaded was garbage. It […]