I’m done (promise)
OK, I am done futzing around with the theme/header/layout/etc. Not that anyone noticed, but back to your regularly scheduled programing…
Category: News
When you want to give up your New Year’s Resolution after two weeks…
A harsh reality I have had to admit to myself: if I had the ability to write insightful, well-crafted book reviews of serious non-fiction then I would be writin...
100 books in 2020, Big Books in 2021
My big picture reading goal in 2020 was to finally crack the 100 books in a year mark which I have been approaching for a few years. I was able to accomplish t...
The Future of Collected Miscellany
The biggest motivation for me to keep this site going is the realization that social media and other distractions had undermined my ability to concentrate and f...
Me in the University Bookman on Breaking Bread with the Dead
Mental Anchors for Information Overload – my review of Breaking Bread with the Dead by Alan Jacobs
nothing has changed in nearly seven years
Who do you write for when your audience disappears? – Sadly, nothing has really changed in nearly seven years…
Pondering the death of a blog or Deja Vu all over again
More than halfway into the second decade of CM I am again pondering quitting. This is something I have been doing since before the tenth anniversary.