Like most readers, I have a stack of books on my To-Read list. There’s a literal stack of them on the floor of my office that I’ve been making my way through over the course of the year. Almost all of them are used books, picked up at estate sales, Half Price Books, and from Little Free Libraries. Over the summer, I inadvertently discovered that I was on a YA kick. While “Ya Kick” sounds…
I recently finished reading “The Creative Act: A Way of Being,” a book by record producer Rick Rubin. A particular sentence on page 319 jumped out at me: “The world is only as free as it allows its artists to be.” Given last week’s news about Paramount axing “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” most likely due to Paramount capitulating to the Trump administration so their merger goes through with Skydance Media, we need…
I picked up a book from the library recently called “Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life” by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles. The copyright date is 2016, which makes it almost a decade old. However, I wish it had been published much earlier, like the late 1980s or early 1990s. You see, it was during that period that I read all kinds of self-help books trying to divine my purpose…