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(Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash) Guzzling pints of beer with Deep Purple in the background rupturing our ear drums Deliberating over Gin…

(Image Credit: http://www.barnesandnoble.com) Books can be like Russian Matryoshka dolls. Similar to these nested wooden dolls where one primary doll has many smaller…

(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) An illustrated polemic, “Accidental Czar” takes pictorial potshots at the egregious President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. While the heavy lifting…

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) How often do we pause to reflect about the benefits and disadvantages of a roundabout, other than when honking, hollering…

(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) At the outset, I wish to gratefully acknowledge Tim Herfkens for leading me onto this wonderful book and an even…

Laird Hunt’s formidable protagonist Zorrie Underwood of Clinton County is not so much a quintessential woman of the soil as she is the…

(Image Credit: http://www.bookdepository.com) Beginning 1966 and extending well into the early 1980s, two veritable titans nursing tangentially different ideologies in the domain of…

(Photo by Xavier von Erlach on Unsplash) Is it imminent lethargy that makes us let our guards down? Or is it an innocent trust that makes…

(Image Credit: Macmillan Publishers) The Norwegian-American economist and sociologist, Thorstein Veblen coined the term, “conspicuous consumption’. This term explains the practice of consumers…

(Image Credit: http://www.ebookmela.com) A cross between a calendar of famous quotes and a pamphlet of bottled wisdom, Austin Kleon’s “Steal Like An Artist”…