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For It Is In Giving That We Receive
A 2025 Holiday Gift Guide
Nov 13
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Russell Smith
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What I Read Q3 2025
Slowing down; Mishima and Marquez; more on The Bhagavad Gita; much more mythology; Chernow's biography of Ulysses S. Grant; and our last hero, Henry…
Oct 16
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Russell Smith
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We Play for the Sheer Joy of Play
Katy Bowser Hutson discusses her upcoming book, Play Book; why adults need play; and how play and philosophy are "kissing cousins"
Aug 29
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Russell Smith
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Katy Bowser Hutson
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A Conversation With Debut Novelist Sarah Landenwich
On her book The Fire Concerto; her writing -- and walking -- habits; her persistence in finding an agent; and loving the genius of forgotten female…
Aug 6
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Russell Smith
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Revisiting Lonesome Dove and Leadership
Celebrating 4 years of Solvitur Ambulando
Jul 17
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Russell Smith
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What I Read Q2 2025
I speed through a debut novelist's tale of music and love; dig further into The Bhagavad Gita; journey to Tibet and the interior; savor novels by Hesse…
Jul 10
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Russell Smith
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Egyptian-American Author Sherry Shenoda Discusses Her Book of Poetry, Mummy Eaters
On place, identity, language, heritage, desecration...and the special bond between grandmothers and granddaughters
Jun 5
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Russell Smith
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The Walk That Spawned Two Books With the Same Title....and a Third Book
A review of Craig Mod’s Things Become Other Things, Things Become Other Things, and Other Thing
May 22
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Russell Smith
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Seasons of Reading
We mark the passage of time by the books we re-read
Apr 17
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Russell Smith
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What I Read Q1 2025
Sherlock Holmes; on Japanese Folk Crafts; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; a Unique "Gospel"; on Yoga and Traditionalism
Apr 3
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Russell Smith
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The Greatest Soldier Eisenhower Ever Knew
Steven Rabalais examines to stellar life and profound influence of Major General Fox Conner
Mar 13
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Russell Smith
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Ornithologist Sophie Osborn on the Joys, Trials, Trails, and Tears of Saving Endangered Birds
"I always felt like I was doing something of value and importance"
Jan 23
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Russell Smith
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Sophie A. H. Osborn
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