Read My Mind

Holidays are always a good time to look for internet deals and this July 4th weekend is a good time to scour the internet for some free book downloads. The biggest deal of the weekend is through Barnes  & Noble. They are offering multiple downloads – many of them literary classics – on any electronic device…

Some atheists really know to be a buzz-kill. In fact they want to ruin my cook-out and sunbathing time at the beach by preaching their non-religion to me.In  Mitch Albom’s  latest column, he describes how a group called American Atheists will be spending what I assume to be a considerable  amount of money to tell the…

Ann Patchett’s latest novel, “State of Wonder”, is one of the summer’s bestselling books and it is getting rave reviews as well. So I have a confession. I have never read an Ann Patchett book before this summer. I now know why. I read “State of Wonder” because it was assigned reading for a course…

Typos in publishing are, of course, a never-ending source of comedy, but I particularly liked this commentary over at Huffington Post about Kevin Salwen’s  musings on Amazon, Kindle and typos in tne Bible. Well, at least certain editions of the Bible. And then he got a crazy idea: “What would be the worst typo a publisher…

My time writing for Beliefnet has been long – well, by internet standards anyway- and varied.  I have grown as a writer even as Beliefnet has grown and gone through numerous changes over the years.  It’s been an enjoyable platform for me to share my views on anything and everything from movies to television to…

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