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I’ve compiled quite a list for the rest of this year. I’ve actually finished a few of these but I wanted to write them down so that I can keep the list up to date. Not that anyone really cares what I’m reading, but I go back
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Most of these books are new to me. Instead of re-reading the classics – again, I’ve decided to pick up some new books – even some fiction. * Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse * Spook by Mary Roach * The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt * The Holy Qur’an: A Modern English Reading, Volume
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As I have gotten older and had a chance to catalog my dreams, I've noticed that each dream, though bizarre and individual in narrative, are beginning to self-assemble.
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I've always enjoyed talking politics with friends. I've even stayed in touch with History and Political Science professors from my undergraduate days. A few days ago, while talking with a former History professor, I realized that not everyone sees America the way I do. I told
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We entered a huge structure, like the Great Pyramid. We were on a quest to find some stuff that my grandfather (Papa) had hidden there. Some of my family was there with me. We explored several areas and could not find what we were looking for. Everyone else that was
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I found out tonight that a friend from college is publishing his first book of poetry. How many hurdles must stand in the way of someone trying to be a poet today? It’s so easy to give up on a dream and take the path most often traveled. It’
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Late one night in grad school, I was up studying way too long. You know the kind of studying where it's just making things worse by staying up so late. When I get really tired I tend to get a little goofy and laugh at anything. Well, I
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I was tempted to write about the amazing amount of corruption that is being uncovered on a daily basis about our President but then I went to my mailbox and had a letter addressed to “Informed Consumer.” Hey, that was me they were talking about. Within a few months I
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I worked at McDonald’s when I was a sophomore in high school. I had to get up at like 4:30 every Saturday morning to work the breakfast shift. It was right next to a mall and was slammed every morning. There was this manager – he was the one
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Did you know that you can stop light? This concept has been around since Einstein’s days when he proposed that at absolute zero all motion stops and all matter blurs (this was based on previous work by Satyendra Nath Bose). It was only a matter of time before a
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I was at a beach party late into the night. The sand was black and rocky - the ocean was beautiful. As the party was winding down, I realized that I had no idea where I was. I asked one of the guys that were at the party where we
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When I really started to understand what had gone on 30 years before me - during the 50's and 60's and how divided the country was about the color of someone's skin - was in high school. Racism was a little confusing to suburban