We’re heading up the freeway and along the north shore of Lake Superior today for our annual Thanksgiving getaway at Lutsen Resort. It will be 5 days of relaxing, eating, and enjoying the scenery. Hopefully a bit of snowshoeing as well, since we have a big snowstorm raging today. I also plan to put away […]
Road Trip Reading
Long hours in the car driving from Minnesota to the northern tip of Newfoundland means lots of time for reading. Here’s a list of the books that made the cut for this trip for each of the road-trippers (my sister, brother-in-law, mom, and me), with excerpted blurbs from Amazon. Don’t Tell the Newfoundlanders: The True […]
2018 Books: Top Ten
Thanks to being part of a book club and the discovery of audiobooks, I did a lot of reading (and listening) in 2018. Here are ten of my favorites: The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia, by Michael Booth This is an interesting look at the cultures and societies of […]
2017 Reading: American Stories
In looking over the books I read in 2017, it’s apparent that I somehow got on a kick of reading books that told stories about the history of the United States. Maybe it had something to do with the four 1000+ mile road trips across the country that I took. At any rate, if you […]
Recommended Reading: Non-fiction
I recently saw someone on Twitter ask for non-fiction book recommendations. I promptly made a list of some of my favorite non-fiction books; however, since I’m generally hesitant to jump into Twitter conversations, I decided to share my list here. Bottom line: I love reading non-fiction, and as you will see from this list, I gravitate […]
Twin Bells?
The second bell that Noël Piper and I found in China was at a church in Ya’an, Sichuan Province. Like the bell we had found the day before, this one was cast in a foundry in Cincinnati, Ohio. The pastor didn’t know what had happened to the bell during the Cultural Revolution, and how it had survived. […]
