Chosen, The Lost Books-1 by Ted Dekker; 2007; Thomas Nelson, Nashville, TN; 260 pages; 978-1-59554-359-2; 3/31-3/31 Ted Dekker has done it once again, I started this book this morning and had a hundred pages read before I got off the train. I read as I walked, read on each break and at lunch, sat down [...]
Today is opening day for major league baseball and the San Diego Padres. Hopefully this will be the year that the Padres win the World Series. Root, root, root for your favorite team. Hello, Dolly/Louis Armstrong/Louis Armstrong Gold. Recently I read a good book by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and was reminded how much I liked Jazz. [...]
Star Wars:Heir to The Empire by Timothy Zahn; 1991; 361 pages; Bantam Books, New York; 0-553-07327-3; 3/28-3/30 What happened to all of the cast of Star Wars after the celebration on the Planet Endor with the Ewoks? Five years after the destruction of the second Deathstar, the rebellion is still attempting to form a new [...]
On the day we moved from our apartment on SE 71st to our new home on NE 122nd we had lots of help. Andrew Rowlett helped us moved in his Jetta. Although at the end we didn’t have room for the love seat in any of the trucks or vans, so Dukkie and Drew fastened [...]
A Defiant Life; Thurgood Marshall and The Persistence of Racism in America by Howard Ball; Crown Publishers, Inc, New York, NY; 1998; 428 pages; 0-517-59931-7; 3/22-3/27 Now I have to do something about what I have learned. Racism is a constant problem for many people in this country and I don’t see it because I [...]
