War of the whales was a book that validated our book club’s desire to read books that we would not ordinarily read on our own. This...

Benghazi – 13 Hours was a good book after the much heavier Capital in the 21st Century, and we all enjoyed the break from that previous...

Capital in the 21st Century is a well researched and documented macroeconomic analysis about the trend toward greater concentration of...

Note: originally written in the summer of 2020, and unedited to retain its historical perspective. Two weeks of self-isolation has...

As a child, i envisioned God from the image of the Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, a great, giant, all-seeing...

A black swan is an unexpected event, considered an outlier that no prudent person would have seen coming. The world has always been a...

I took a junior year abroad in Munich Germany in the late 1970’s. That year I learned what socialism did for the people in those...

A recent study by the University of South Australia has concluded that exercise is 1.5 times as effective as therapy or pharmaceutical...

When I was little, the fringe tree stood at the end of the breezeway, a small ornamental tree at the corner of the lawn and the driveway. My bike was in a stall off the breezeway, so I came and went by that tree every day, for all my early life. Aside from its anchor location, the tree was non-descript, …except in June. Decades later my mom and sister were at Kennedy’s Country Gardens looking for something remarkable and durable as an anniversary gift. Nothing seemed quite

As we approach the weirdest Thanksgiving in my life, here are ten things I’m thankful for. My town, the place I grew up, the place that...

About a hundred years ago at a county fair auction in England, auction organizers held a little contest to engage the crowds: guess the...

Joel had recommended this book for Bonnie Lea Book Club so he led our discussion. He began by citing author Michael Schellenberger’s...

That wind turbines kill insects doesn’t bother most people, but as with the “butterfly effect”, the consequences may be understated. The...

Brunellesci’s Dome, a chronicle of the building of il Duomo, Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence Italy, got a thumbs up from all attendees...

The Bonnie Lea Book Club embraced a book fitting for a quick but memorable spring read. The core theme was Julian Van Winkle and his...

Our book club explored the classic novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov. This review will chronicle our book club's...

Book review of God Human Animal Machine

RISK FOR A RICH LIFE I’m in the risk business. The first thing I want to do is bust the myth that risk people want only to reduce...