Monthly Archives: February 2012

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

John Perkins Penguin Group, 2006  You’re either going to read this and be alarmed for the future of all mankind, or you’ll think it’s a lie-ridden, left-wing agenda meant to obscure facts and bring down freedom with free enterprise. Anyone … Continue reading

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Recipe Clipping is an Archeological Dig

The shelf where I keep cookbooks is so stuffed some of them have to lay on top of others to have room in the cupboard. And a few of them have been around almost as long as I’ve been married … Continue reading

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The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

Brady Udall Vintage Books, 2001 As I read this book I had a running conversation with myself about why I read because this book baffled me. It wasn’t gripping. It wasn’t boring. It wasn’t inspiring. It wasn’t without inspiration. It … Continue reading

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What Is It With Humans and The Desire to Kill?

What is it with humans? Where do we find the energy, time, desire and how-to for the sure destruction of others? What turns us from a life spent paying the bills and watching the news to making the news? Yesterday … Continue reading

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