Category: Books

When I was very young, like a lot of kids I was fascinated by the slightly skewed geological notion grown-ups liked to tell us: that if I dug a hole straight down through the...

It seems like travel has become more uncomfortable with each passing year. I flew to New York recently in a seat so narrow it was nearly impossible to open a book and breathe at...

Face it, you’re just too thin. You’ve been working out at the gym, you’re hardly more than a skeleton, a shadow of your former self, and we simply need to fatten you up. As...

I came across the title of Erich Fromm’s 1941 classic, Escape From Freedom, about twenty years before I actually read the book. It was a title that took on its own life in my...

“A young princess was called Snowflower because she was white like snow and was born during the winter. One day her mother became sick, and the princess went out to pluck herbs that might...

I suspect every high school student in America has read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, usually in some tedious 10th grade English class, one of those “important” books you never think of...

The year 1984 has come and gone, but the work of British author George Orwell (1903 – 1950) lives on. Like Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece movie, 2001, the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four did not quite predict accurately what was...

I was lucky enough to live in Rome in the late 1960s for nearly two years, city of eternal magic. I had a job as an assistant director in the movies – a gopher,...

If you know Honolulu, you will probably know the name Keo Sananikone, king of Thai cuisine in Hawaii. Keo, who holds a degree in architecture from the University of Washington, opened his first Honolulu...