Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. I’m reading The Romanovs: 1613-1918 (by Simon Sebag Montefiore, who also wrote the Stalin book I read last summer). I’ve long been fascinated by the tragic story of the last tsar… Continue reading Winning… and Losing
Category: Books
On the Nightstand: The Mirror & the Light
I’d been meaning to read Wolf Hall, the first in Hilary Mantel’s trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, for years. Then it turned out my friend MEG was a fan, so I borrowed her copy about a year ago and was hooked. I didn’t know much about Cromwell before this (though I could have named you all… Continue reading On the Nightstand: The Mirror & the Light
Blind Leading the Blind
Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into… Continue reading Blind Leading the Blind
On the Nightstand–Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
Maybe it happens to you too, those times when you beat yourself up over something no one else noticed. Or maybe it’s anxiety about things over which you have little or no control over, like whether someone is practicing social distancing or who’s going to win an election. Oh, you trust that all shall be… Continue reading On the Nightstand–Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts