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The Reading List “For the aim of this book is pleasure. I have never read a book or thought about a subject except for pleasure. Sometimes it is an athletic sort of joy, like a game of tennis, or hunting on a cold, wet day, but if I didn’t enjoy it, I wouldn’t...
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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum We were on a historical sites roll, thus I decided to take a detour to Springfield, Illinois, and visit the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, though I was not quite sure it should be grouped with say President Richard Nixon’s or President Lyndon Johnson’s Presidential Library’s....
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Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtianior One of my first friends in colleges was a woman from Iran. She was a few years ahead of me, and lived in my dorm. I do not know why we became friends, but we did. She looked exotic, but not because she was Iranian, rather because she had a certain...
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Do you remember vacuum tubes? No, not something to help you sweep the floor, but rather the large, bulky, glass tubes which were housed inside of television sets, that were anything but flat! They were the electronic amplifiers which allowed the world the wonder of radio, television, and the first computers. The size and...
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78 Days Later One of Florida’s perks is that you really can swim year around, as the water is almost always warm; and in general Floridians love the beach. We live on a peninsula, surrounded by a truly breathtaking vista of sea and sand. Having lived in California and Hawaii, with their impressive beaches...
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October 13, 1958 Our family has few heirlooms, most of which no one else would consider of value. I have just packed away a photo of my father, standing in front of one of his paintings. I am sending it to Caroline, my younger sister. Her name is written on the back of...
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With the exception of the Bible, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s Man of La Mancha has been translated into more languages than any other book! It is undoubtedly, the finest piece of Spanish fiction ever written, credited as the first modern novel, in any language, and considered by many to be one of the best...
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“Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.” ~ Herodotus ~ (The Father of History) “A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.” ~Thomas Jefferson ~ ...
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Lead Like Ike I have just finished Lead Like Ike, Ten business Strategies from the CEO of D-Day, by Geoff Loftus. I was initially intrigued by the author’s title; the concept of this book was brilliant; the execution, however, was innocuous with writing that is very casual and unfortunately a bit redundant, particularly...
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The General and The President “I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at...
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