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Familyhood
If you’re a parent, this book will warm your heart and make you laugh; if you’re not a parent, it might make you consider taking it up. Comedian/actor Paul Reiser dishes out wisdom and humor, and expresses exactly what it … Continue reading
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How to Raise Your Adult Children: Because Big Kids Have Even Bigger Problems
Finally! A book about all those issues you never imagined you would have to deal with when the last kid left home–money problems, work problems, divorce, grandchildren, and moving back “home”. It was much easier for you to handle your … Continue reading
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The Happiness Project, or, Why I spent a year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun
Author Gretchen Rubin, bless her heart, comes across as a somewhat miserable person in her quest for happiness–nagging, critical, prone to one-upmanship, unable to laugh at herself, impatient. But I suppose when you are laying out your worst qualities–character flaws that hinder you … Continue reading
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Crazy For The Storm: A Memoir of Survival
A while back I wrote about the importance of fathers after reading a couple of books that involved young men with rejecting fathers. This memoir, by Norman Ollestad, is in some ways the opposite: an overly involved father who pushes … Continue reading
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Are We Born Racist? New Insights from Neuroscience and Positive Psychology
This collection of articles, mostly from Greater Good magazine, looks at racism from a biological standpoint as well as psychological and sociological bases. According to studies cited in this book, our brains are configured very early on to notice differences … Continue reading →
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