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10 books everyone should read
(in my opinion) I was excited to get a request from my friend Andres, for a list of my “10 books everyone should read,” because it forced me (non-reluctantly) back to my bookshelf to see which books have had the biggest impact on the way I view the world. That is my criteria. Because while [...]
April 30th, 2012A Drama of Medicine & Man
In another life, I could have been a doctor, a medical researcher, someone spending a lifetime in the lab finding ways, meanings, solutions to diseases and maladies. I say this because I find medical history, the progression and discovery and trials and missteps, to be wildly fascinating (but honestly, fascination doesn’t equal brilliance in that field, let [...]
January 11th, 2012Summer reading list
Stieg Larsson’s third book Books I read this summer (and recommend) For the preservationist you: The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a CIty Transformed by Michael Meyer For the adventurous youthful side: Undress Me In the Temple Of Heaven: A Memoir by Susan Jane Gilman For an all-out laugh [...]
September 1st, 2011Bossy lady
One of my favorite of those old American Express ads, featuring Tina Fey, writer and mother I loved Tina Fey’s memoir Bossypants. Her thoughts on being a woman in society, laughing at her own childhood, recounting the sagas of SNL writing days and Sarah Palin sketches, talk of her father, 30 Rock writing and development, motherhood, [...]
August 11th, 2011