Summer Reading List 2019
I first got into summer reading lists in high school. Back then the lists were assigned and geared towards prepping for the SAT and AP exams. I still remember – vividly – reading Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden during my AFS summer in Tunisia between my junior and senior years. The […]
Get Your Career in Gear Reading List 2014
Continuing with the National Preparedness Month and Back To School themes (plus a recent Facebook meme), today I offer how to Get Your Career in Gear Reading List 2014. 50 Self Help Classics – Tom Butler-Bowdon I admit I wish I’d thought of this. But I didn’t. Tom Butler-Bowdon did and now he’s built a […]
When You Believe…So Will We
My friend, Mary Lengle, says, if you sit in the middle of the road you’ll get run over. You need a manifesto. A mission statement. A raison d’etre. You need to believe. When I was a kid people talked about having “the courage of their convictions.” You need that. And you must commit. As they say […]
Vote for Summer! Reading List #1
I am pleased as punched it’s Memorial Day Weekend and finally safe to take my winter coat to the dry cleaner. Although the Solstice is not until June 21st and New York City Public Schools are in session until June 26th (!!!), New Yorkers know Memorial Day Weekend as the official start of the Summer […]