This is my 3rd or 4th attempt at reading Moby-Dick and I've made it far enough this time that I'm pretty confident I'll finish. While I still have quite a bit to go, I keep thinking of observations that I want to share now.

According to my Amazon order date, I preordered Show Your Work by a couple weeks in early 2014 and still waited until now to finally read it. This was a great, quick read with some inspiring moments. As I read the book, I continued adding people to a list in my head that should read it […]

Sometime last year I stumbled upon writer Dervla Murphy, and her book chronicling her solo trip in 1963, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle. I think I was drawn by the cycling, the wonder at how it was done equipment wise, and just the raw adventure it promised. The book turned out to […]