50 Books Every Child (and Adult) Should Read
For my money Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio is one of the most marvelous books ever written. Full of dry wit and dark humor, much of which is lost on children, the story is a developmental...
View ArticleBook Recommendations: 20 Strange Books You Might Like to Read. Or Not.
There’s nothing like a book to take you into different worlds, experience different lives and in the doing learn something about yourself. Here’s a list of offbeat books by some very worthwhile...
View ArticlePsychoanalyzing Scrooge
What exactly trigger’s Ebenezer Scrooge’s big transformation in A Christmas Carol? I always thought Scrooge’s change of heart came about when the spirit of Christmas-yet-to-come pointed a boney finger...
View ArticleBoethius: Getting Your Mind Right
We’ve all been there. We’ve been passed up for a promotion because the nephew of the CEO came on board. Or we came down with the flu the day before we leave on our dream vacation. Something goes wrong...
View ArticleThe Ghosts of Christmas Past – A Creepy Look at the Darker Side of Yuletide
So much of Christmas is supposed to by happy, jolly and filled with thoughts of prancing reindeer that we often overlook the darker side of winter solstice. But if we think about it for a while we...
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