Here is my list of books I've read and audiobooks I've heard during the year. As I finish a book I will add it to the list (under the cut).
A = Audiobook
B = Printed book

( This year's reads/listens )

Thoughts on the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination ( Read more... )

Here is my list of books I've read and audiobooks I've heard during the year. As I finish a book I will add it to the list (under the cut). Provided the world is still here after December, I'll make the final edit shortly after New Years. EDIT TO ADD: And now it's done.

A = Audiobook
B = Printed book

( 2012's reads )

25 years ago, I was wrapping up my service in the U.S. Army, during an era that history records as "peacetime," save for a bloodless Cold War with the Soviets ( Read more... )

Some say that when the end of the world comes, it will be with a shout, or a trumpet. In this room, it comes in a calm, measured monotone ( Read more... )

Feb. 11 gets a crowded entry in "this day in history."
* On this day in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison. He later becomes president of South Africa.
* On this day in 2006, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney shot a lawyer in the face in a hunting accident, for which the victim later apologized.
* Back in 1938, according to Wikipedia, a ( Read more... )

It was 25 years ago today. I happened to be at home on leave from the Army at the time. I didn't see the explosion live, but the TV showed it over and over, as they like to do ( Read more... )

Here is my list of books I've read and audiobooks I've heard during the year. As I finish a book I add it to the list (under the cut) and I'll make the final edit at the end of the year. ( Here is last year's list.)

A = Audiobook
B = Book

( This year's reads )

I remember that evening long ago being very boring. Of course I was a preschooler (or at least very young) and everyone else in the room were grown-ups.

We were in the board room of the local electric cooperative, with no need to rent a bigger meeting room. Including Mom and Dad there were about a dozen adults present (and me, wasting time as best I ( Read more... )

Just finished working on the "time machine" feature in which I look through past papers for local people and what they were doing 10 or 25 years ago. Even though they aren't part of the feature, I also read the national headlines. Couldn't help but notice a few things.

Looking at the paper from 10 years ago, November 2000, and noting it reported ( Read more... )