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The View From the Top of the World
Some eleven years ago, Vanity Fair contributor Bryan Burrough wrote a lengthy, if not macabre, article about the disappearance of a pair of mountaineers who were attempting to become the first individuals to summit Mt. Everest. The two were an odd pair. The leader of the 1924 expedition was renown British mountaineer George Mallory, who was…
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Book Review: Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me
On the shelves of our office library are a number of biographies. From Winston Churchill to Johnny Cash, we have no shortage of books about the lives of other, much more interesting, people. The number of memoirs, or autobiographies on our shelves is relatively paltry by comparison. This is not an accident. I tend not…
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Book Reviews for November and December
Late last week, I was pleased to receive the opportunity to review two more books in the near future. The titles released earlier this year, but newly minted paperbacks are just hitting the shelves. The first review will be of author Ian Morgan Cron’s newly released memoir titled Jesus, My Father, The CIA and Me:…
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Book Review: The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt – a novel in pictures
I think each of us has an inner packrat. Whatever the object – say, hypothetically, it’s an empty lighter from a Vegas casino where you celebrated your first wedding anniversary (I digress) – whatever the object, we tend to invest items with emotional significance because of the memories associated with the object. Just by looking…
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A Dispatch from Taos
It’s a drop past 11AM here in Taos Pueblo. The temperature has languidly paced it’s way into the 50s. A cool breeze makes its way beneath the carport here at my Grandmother’s house. It’s mid-October, but wood stoves burn in the distance, and the smells of piñon waft through the air as it has done…
Pax Plena 