2016 READING LIST

Here is my annual list of reading. It is composed of old as well as new books. I have annotated my thoughts about some of the more notable books.   FICTION Spies and Intrigues: The Oppenheim Secret Service Omnibus, E. Phillips Oppenheim 1936 Superb Clowns &...

THE CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

In preparing for Christmas through the season of Advent I always like to find a new source of inspiration. This year I read Timothy Keller’s, Hidden Christmas: The Surprising Truth Behind the Birth of Christ. Each chapter represents at least 10 or so meditations and...

ADVENT

O LORD, my years grow long, my time short: Let me make haste with my repentance and bow head and heart: Let me not stay one day from amendment, lest I stay too long: Let me cease without delay to love my own mischief, and abandon without a backward look the unfruitful...