I’m so far from an elite athlete, even the comparison is comical. Yet I’ve pushed myself often enough and hard enough while running, rowing, or cycling, that I have some understanding of the pain of pushing past your limits. So, I was intrigued when I heard about this new book, How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Psychology of Mind Over Muscle (2015) by Matt Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald’s main thesis (supported by lots of science) is that your mind is the limiting factor in athletic endurance performance. […]
A Little Shakespearean Cross Dressing
I would occasionally roll my eyes at this book, thinking, oh my god, this plot or this character is ridiculous. But then I would remember the name of the book and know that I couldn’t really complain about a book being ridiculous when its called Ridiculous! (2012). Really, what did I expect? I have never read anything by D.L. Carter before, but this one was fun and interesting, so I’d be willing to read another. Millicent Boarder, her two sisters, and her mother have lived under […]
If it’s good enough for John Oliver…
John Oliver, always witty and informative, was discussing retirement plans one day, and I saw it on Youtube. That reminded me that I’ve been working for the same place for four years now, and I still haven’t set up my own retirement plan. One of the problems is that I was always distracted by the many other things I could be doing with that money. But the main problem was that I had no idea what I was doing. When the economy was bad, I figured what’s […]
Brides for Indians
I’m not too sure what to write about One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (1998) by Jim Fergus. It was another book club book. So even though I’d seen it on the bookshelves at Target and was intrigued, I probably wouldn’t have read it on my own. On the whole, I liked it. It kept my interest and had a lot of fascinating historical detail. Most of my book club was just frustrated that it wasn’t a true story. For my part, I […]
A Sweet Love Story
I discovered Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (2015) by Becky Albertalli through a very positive Cannonball Review. Of course, by the time I picked it up to read it, I had forgotten what it was about and why I’d wanted to read it. When I first started, I thought it was all right but I wasn’t too excited. I didn’t have an immediate interest in reading more about how Simon spends his time after high school hanging out with his best friends. This changed quickly […]
“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
“My frantic search for a ‘post-graduation plan’ led me to law school mostly because other graduate programs required you to know something about your field of study to enroll.” (4) I knew almost immediately that I had an affinity with Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy (2014). He went to law school because he wasn’t sure what else to do, and he never felt like he fit in. I ended up in law school in the same way and wondered why everyone was so excited about […]
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