If You Only Read A Few Books In 2024, Read These
One of my favorite quotes—enough that I have it inscribed on the wall across the back of my bookstore—comes from the novelist Walter Mosley. “I’m not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world,” he said. “I’m saying it helps.” 2024 promises us nothing but the same […]
This is the Word I’m Trying to Live By This Year
At the end of 2022, actually as part of The Daily Stoic New Year New You Challenge (new one starting on Jan 1 if you want to join us), my wife and I picked a word we were going to use as our lodestar for the year. We picked ‘less’ because we felt like we […]
The (Very) Best Books I Read In 2023
It was a great year of reading once again. Not because the titles published this year were particularly great–as always, my reading is usually rooted in stuff that’s older, in a more serendipitous process than catching titles as they come out. It was great because I found so many books that were new to me […]