I just picked up a package at the local post office, books from Amazon.com in the U.S.A. It’s not even all that expensive to ship them here – about $10 for a stack of them – and only took about two weeks. It was a little adventure actually getting my hands on them, though. First, [...]
Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar, Al andar se hace el camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en el mar. Traveler, your footprints are [...]
Market Street Books in Southern Village, Chapel Hill held an author reception tonight for my friend and client, Amy Tiemann.
I’m reading The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging (by the editors of the Huffington Post; forward by Arianna Huffington) and it’s really interesting to me, so just for today I’m blogging about blogging. A couple of years ago, when the word “blog” started appearing everywhere, I had been an Internet professional for years and [...]
I’ve had my Kindle for almost two months now. I can’t say that it was love at first sight; there are some things I really don’t like about it. But it has grown on me a lot, to where I can honestly say that I really like it now and am using it daily. And [...]
I just finished reading Mexican Days: Journeys Into the Heart of Mexico by Tony Cohan, a travelogue of a kind of a buffet odyssey throughout the country. His writing is elegant and thorough, and his stories of visits to a selection of Mexican locations are fun and informative. But the book which is truly affecting [...]
I’ve read and re-read God Calling by A.J. Russell for over twenty years now. it’s what is known as a Christian daily devotional, a book composed of a collection of 365 short readings. For me, no spiritual book (other than maybe the books of the Bible) even compares to it. It speaks to me in [...]