Olio: a miscellaneous collection of things My recent online reading has included some good news, some bad (very bad) news, and a parable. Let’s start with the good news. Stress is often referred to as a bad thing, and it can be. However, if you look at it the right way, your body can deal with it much more effectively than when you think of it as a bad thing. Check out this article on…
Spelunking is the term used for exploring caves. Urban explorers in London have been spelunking in the underground structures of the city and documenting what they find because most of these areas are off-limits to the public. People love mucking about in hidden places. On a planet that seems to have had every square inch explored, what might there be left to uncover? As London’s urban explorers have found, human beings have created hidden and forgotten…
You’re not going to believe this. I have actually read a book that is on my original list of Year of Creative Reading books. Crazy, but true. One of my hopes for the list was to use it to find books that I might not find on my own. What with the shift of bookstores to an online environment, it’s a lot harder to find books using serendipity. Now we’ve got to use lists (normally…