This book just has me thinking, thinking, thinking. It's written by a surgeon, and it's about checklists. It praises the pilot/aviation community for using checklists, and strongly suggests that doctors/medical professionals should start using them too ( Read more... )

I read "Talking to Strangers" by Malcolm Gladwell because, well, I like talking to strangers. I thought it would be more of a social capital book about how we should connect with each other. Instead it was a little bit of the opposite. I kinda hated it and gave it three stars on goodreads. But the more I think about it, the more I'm coming around ( Read more... )

The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store ( Read more... )

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I finished "I will teach you to be rich" by Ramit Sethi. Here are some things he believes in ( Read more... )

How I pick audiobooks these days: I go to my libby app, click browse, what's available, sort by popular, non-fiction. That's how I listened to "The Last Black Unicorn" by Tiffany Haddish. hey, judge me for reading a celebrity memoir all you want but it was hilarious and she had such a CRAZY life! Her childhood was unbelievable... abuse, abandonment ( Read more... )

One day Marc and I had some stupid fight about his car maintenance practices that I won't go into, and I ranted in a mom group about it. The gist of my post is that I am proud of our marriage, see our marriage as one of the best, I thought we were great communicators and work as a team, but sometimes we stumble and it really frustrates me ( Read more... )

from thefridayfive...

1) Have you read more books, or fewer books, this past year than usual?
Oh gosh I have no idea. Probably fewer, I've been distracted. But maybe more! I did spend way too much time on all 800 pages of gone with the wind last year.

2) What book are you reading now (or what book did you read most recently)?
The Seven Principles for Making ( Read more... )

Right when I was making my new year's resolutions, the US capitol was violently stormed by... who? trump supporters? domestic terrorists? crazy assholes? what definition you use depends on your perspective, but once again I heard commentary about how we should not use "ableist language" to describe events in the news and I couldn't figure out what ( Read more... )

I made a new years resolution to educate myself about "ableist language", a term so new to the world that I didn't even know how to tell people what it meant. I picked up "(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health" and "Disability Visibility" and looked for other best sellers and compilations and challenging ( Read more... )