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Wednesday, January 6, 2021

The Most Fun Book of 2020: "Tell Me Another One"

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Judith Newman At the end of 2019, before the pandemic, I was in the middle of a crowd of more than a thousand people in a big hall in Brookl...
Sunday, January 3, 2021

Book Report 2020: Best and Worst

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My favorite book of 2020 This year I am breaking my book list into pieces. This piece is Best and Worst books of 2020.  Each book was recomm...
Friday, January 1, 2021

Book Report 2020: Fiction

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The year 2020 brought a plague on the world, but was a bonanza for my life in books. I am part of a half dozen book groups, so I read books...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Book Report Preview in Pictures

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This year I read 50 books. I have not even started writing my 2020 book report, so I am making a preview in pictures: both a preview of the ...
Monday, December 21, 2020

Celebrating the 51st Anniversary of My Driver's with a 1,400-Mile, 44-Hour Trip

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On Thursday morning, December 17, my daughter Lisa sent me a text saying that should would be in Chicago on Saturday, December 19.  I had sa...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

American Exceptionalism Died on Trump's Lying Lips

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  In an essay on Socrates, Hannah Arendt says Socrates wanted all of us to be at peace within ourselves: as much as possible our inner self ...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

The Best Bicycle Racer I Know is the Most Humble

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  Barry Free and I when I extended my Army enlistment for the last time. Today I went to the doctor for a routine visit. It was an hour befo...
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