So I made it to the big Three-Hundred. For me it is not a surprise. It is more of an inevitability: if you keep stacking up daily posts, eventually you get to…
Category: Books
Day 278: Having Something Good to Read
So today I was at the cafe writing (surprise, surprise) about, of all topics, biographies I have read over past few years. I have read some great biographies, as well as auto-biographies…
Day 275: Some of my favorite passages from “Walden”
Last week I finished reading Thoreau’s “Walden.” Truly it was a joyful experience revisiting a childhood inspiration, and now I think I have the maturity to take the parts that still resonate…
Day 267: Embracing the Wisdom of Uncertainty
In his book “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success,” Deepak Chopra suggests that we embrace the idea of uncertainty, and that we factor it into our daily lives. As he writes, The…
Day 265: Thoreau, Astute Nature Writer and Lover of Ponds
If you know much about Thoreau, you are may be used to thinking of him, as I have, as a reformist philosopher, the conscientious objector who sees through the flaws of society…
Day 261: “Liar’s Poker,” or Michael Lewis’ sojourn into Wall Street hell
I just finished reading Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street. If you have seen any of the following movies–The Big Short, The Blind Side, or Moneyball— well,…
Day 257: The Man Who Taught Me to Think for Myself
Way back in the day, when I was first applying to college, I wrote a college entrance essay quoting a book that impacted me greatly at the time. This book was “Walden,”…
Day 255: Giving up Attachment
Deepak Chopra wrote a book awhile ago called “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success.” I have alluded to it a few times on this blog already. I originally got this book many…
Day 241: “The Glass Castle” Book Review, aka Parents Gone Wild
(Note: This is actually a blog post I wrote last July, before I started this 365 Day project. I never posted this because I was “in my head” about it, over-thinking it. …
Day 235: Taming the Reading Hobgoblin
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. –Emerson A few months ago I wrote that I wasn’t feeling as motivated to read. Well, we are nearly through the third month…