Category: Non-fiction

  • The Book I Keep Returning to More Than Any Other

    The Book I Keep Returning to More Than Any Other

    On average, every year or so, I read (actually listen to the audiobook version of) Miguel Ruiz’s 1997’s classic The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom. I am sure that the fact that it is in audio format has something to do with my returning to the book…

  • The Best Books I Read in 2024

    The Best Books I Read in 2024

    It’s 2025 and it’s time to review the books I read last year. This post just like the 2019 post I finished and actually published five years ago was supposed to be the first in a tradition, but. the 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 “Best Books I Read” never got…

  • Alas, if I Bowled, I Probably Would Bowl Alone

    Alas, if I Bowled, I Probably Would Bowl Alone

    “Citizenship is not a spectator sport.” – Steve Miska I was intrigued by an interview by the New York Times podcast The Daily of political sociologist Robert Putnam. I had never heard of the man before but I wanted to know more about his work when the interviewer and Putnam discussing…