Showing posts with label Reading is Fun(damental). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading is Fun(damental). Show all posts

Friday, October 16, 2026

Thanks to All the Literacy Volunteers

Like you, I own a boatload (more like a catamaran, or close to it) of self-help, be-the-best-you-you'll-ever-be books, and I've read enough of them to realize that the deeper you dive, the more likely the one you're currently reading is contradicting something you've read before.

I've actually had self-improvement books from the same writer that, from one offering to the next, walk back insights they previously offered without even acknowledging that they ever held a different position and/or point of view. Talk about putting the 'eat' in caveat emptor...

Here's what I think it all comes down to:


 And you, as always, may be whomever you wish to be
So if you're out tonight and you're on your bike, wear white.
-bill kenny  

Signs and Portents

In the warmth of the post-Election glow, if I may inject a short infusion of pragmatism: with all the billions spent on campaign literature,...