Don's Diary

How Weed Became the New OxyContin

You Are What You Don’t Eat …No animal meat. Bugs. For thee and me, our dogs and cats.

Fifty years ago today Frank Shorter kick-started the running boom. Story

Reading/laughing my head off for the third time (over a 20 year span), historian Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals. Preview

Oregon Track Club Newsletter -September, 2022

More interesting stuff from Malcolm Gladwell on how to save high school sports. Here.

My Q&A with Pat Tyson in the Oregon Track Club Newsletter…here

A special shout-out for our dear friend Sally, who will be 110 on 11/23. She was a Bryn Mawr classmate with mother in law Gertrude Marshall. Though mostly deaf and blind, she wants to see the monthly list. Cheers, Sally!

Favorite authors this month: Johnson, Pink, and Saroyan. And a special find, Baltasar Gracian y Morales, a brilliant, funny Jesuit, born 1601.

Madness In The Family by William Saroyan
Better Off Dead by Lee Child and Andrew Child
A Pocket Mirror For Heroes by Baltasar Gracian
When by Daniel H. Pink
The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen
The Street Philosopher And The Holy Fool by Marius Kociejowski
Fair Warning by Michael Connelly
I’ll Tell You One Thing by Dan Jenkins
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
To Sell Is Human by Daniel H. Pink
Creators by Paul Johnson
Drive by Daniel H. Pink
Every Cloak Rolled in Blood by James Lee Burke
Very Funny Ladies by Liza Donnelly
The Geography of Genius by Eric Weiner
Shadows Reel by C.J. Box
The Human Comedy by William Saroyan
My Name is Aram by William Saroyan
Days of Life and Death and Escape to the Moon by William Saroyan
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations… by John Wooden
Heroes: From Alexander The Great…To De Gaulle by Paul Johnson
Humorists: From Hogarth to Noel Coward by Paul Johnson

Don’t be stupid

When Little Leaguers Set the Example for Adults

Bill Maher: New Rule: Fat Acceptance