‘In hora mortis meae voca me, et iube me venire ad te’ (at the hour of my death, call me and bid me come to you). This is the prayer of Christian hope.” Pope Saint John Paul II, Letter to the Elderly, 1999 I read a book weeks ago, that starts with a death bed. [...]
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I’m out of practice on titles… Book Reviews!
Last week I was away in a place that has problematic internet access. I also had to spend a lot of time at a bank and at a town hall, or waiting for a call back from the town hall, or trying to figure out how to not need a call back from the town [...]
Book Review
Tales of the United States Space Force: 23 Stories and Mythbusting Articles by: (long list of authors) I recently read this somewhat mixed anthology and I had somewhat mixed feelings. The book is about the new branch of the armed services called the Space Force. One of the articles in this anthology explains exactly how [...]
Games people play
I’ve been playing games with two young children and it has been quite entertaining. We play Uno and Hive and Labyrinth, along with a version of Go Fish. They are sharks. They also love to gang up on me even if it means they forget to strategize about each other. The five-year old has made [...]
A day late …
Last week I wrote about Daniel Willingham’s book, Why Don’t Students Like School. I’ve been rereading it, and it’s fascinating all over again. It’s also a very odd experience, because he wrote a lot about memory and how it relates to thinking. One of his most important points in the beginning is this. A mind [...]
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