navigation99 Good News Stories From 2020 You Probably Didn’t Hear About
You’ve Heard of Forest Bathing but How About Forest Bach-ing?
Bill Gates: 5 good books for a lousy year …The Larson book was on my list, and I neglected to include Range.
As of 2018, Gates has saved 122 million lives. …You/Don?
The younger (John Quincy) Adams abstained from pleasures as resolutely as from vices. He rose hours before the sun to read the Bible – in Greek, German, French, or occasionally English. He walked for exercise and knew exactly how far he traveled, having measured his stride to the toenail’s breadth (two feet six and “eighty-eight one hundreds of an inch”). When weather allowed he swam, combining bath and constitutional in whatever pond, river, gulf, or ocean lay nearby. He preferred his own company to that of most other humans, and he wasn’t especially fond of himself. ~H.W. Brands’ Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
My mother was a primary teacher. My father was a book man. I’m a born reader. But reluctant to spread my passion for fear of boring or seeming too proud. More than ever before, this year my book affection (infection) became severe. Hence this partial list.
Old Age by Michael Kinsley
Filthy Shakespeare by Pauline Kiernan
Fathers and Sons by Alexander Waugh
Will This Do? by Auberon Waugh
Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle
Walt Whitman by Jerome Loving
Jim Murray by Jim Murray
Bel Ami by Maupassant
Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks by Stewart Holbrook
Hayward Field: Legends and Legacies
The Patch by John McPhee
Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Jonathon Swift: His Life and World… by Leo Damrosch
The Club: Johnson, Boswell… by Leo Damrosch
Samuel Johnson by John Wain
How The Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
Mysteries of the Middle Age by Thomas Cahill
A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson (and everything else by Larson)
On the plain of snakes: a Mexican journey by Paul Theroux
O Pioneers by Willa Cather
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
One of Ours by Willa Cather
The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis
Don Casmurro by Machado de Assis
Stranger Than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk
Emerson Among The Eccentrics by Carlos Baker
And lots of mysteries by Peter May, Arnaldur Indridason, C.J. Box, James Lee Burke, Lee Child, William Kent Kruger, John Sanford, Craig Johnson… And good friend Craig Leener
University of Oregon board of trustees to vote on 6-year, $27.3 million contract for Mario Cristobal …UO is currently running a huge deficit, perhaps as much as Cristobal’s proposed contract. …More.
The Singular Achievement of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy …The movie is free on You Tube.
College sports has reported at least 6,629 virus cases. There are many more. …Is there a governor with the guts and sense to ban contact sports in these times? We can’t sit down for an inside and socially distanced cup of coffee, but…
It’s back! The Week That Was in Running
Tarahumara Myth …Anyone running barefoot or in minimalist shoes nowadays?
This Was Always About Basketball. …I enjoyed the first two books.
Leener is good guy. We go way back. Read. He leaned on his entrepreneurial brother to contribute all the race shirts for all the five years or more we were associated with the event. Raised a load of money for the poor and hungry.