In "The Light Eaters" author Zoë Schlanger offers a well-written perspective on an intriguing topic: plant behavior. #books#BookReview#nonfiction#sceience#botanymypointbeing.com/2024/07/02/t...
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth Zoë Schlanger Harper (May 7, 2024), 298 pages Kindle edition $14.99, Amazon hardcover $22.40 Zo...
As I continue with my massive recipe project I am noticing some patterns. #cooking#recipes#RecipeSoftwaremypointbeing.com/2024/06/28/t...
As I continue with my massive recipe project I am noticing some patterns. I have a lot of chicken recipes. Of the recipes that I have so far sorted into their proper chapters, as I write this 456 are ...
British composer and arranger of sacred music John Rutter has received a knighthood. Well deserved. #music#SacredMusic#hymns#JohnRuttermypointbeing.com/2024/06/25/i...
My favorite composer and arranger of sacred music is John Rutter. Interestingly, it was not in a religious environment that I discovered his music. When I lived in the Bay Area I listened to classical...
I was not familiar with Aimee Nezhukumatathil before encountering this book, but she is a longtime college professor, a published poet, and, as "Bite by Bite" clearly shows, a skilled essayist. #books#BookReview#nonfiction#memoir#FoodWritingmypointbeing.com/2024/06/20/b...
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees Aimee Nezhukumatathil Ecco (April 30, 2024), 224 pages Kindle edition $13.99, Amazon hardcover $20.74 I was not familiar with Aimee Nezhukumatathil before enco...
reflecting on my college career and the courses I didn't take... #blog#BlogPost#college#education#GraduationRequirementsmypointbeing.com/2024/06/18/m...
I feel fortunate in that I mostly took the classes I wanted my last two years of high school and throughout college. I had three years of math and science in high school. That was sufficient for colle...
In "An Unfinished Love Story" Doris Kearns Goodwin uses her late husband's boxes of memorabilia to document the history of American politics in the 1960s. #books#BookReview#history#AmericanHistory#politicsmypointbeing.com/2024/06/13/a...
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s Doris Kearns Goodwin Simon & Schuster (April 16, 2024), 466 pages Kindle edition $16.99, Amazon hardcover $20.99 I have long been familiar wit...
I miss our Middle Eastern food place. #blog#BlogPost#food#diningmypointbeing.com/2024/06/07/i...
We live on the far west side of town and need to do some driving for shopping, dining, or fast food. The closest strip mall to our gated community contains a WinCo supermarket and several small shops....
my massive recipe software project continues... #blog#BlogPost#cooking#recipes#softwaremypointbeing.com/2024/06/05/m...
I have written about the loss of my favorite recipe software, Living Cookbook, my reluctant migration to MasterCook, and my abandoning MasterCook In frustration, moving on to Cook’n, despite the annua...
In "Alien Earths" author Lisa Kaltenegger writes about the evolution of life on earth and her work in looking for life on planets outside our solar system. Fascinating stuff for any astronomy buff. #books#BookReview#science#astronomy#exoplanetsmypointbeing.com/2024/05/31/a...
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger read by the author and Cassandra Campbell Macmillan Audio, April 16, 2024 (8 hours and 31 minutes) $13.12 for Audible...
In his book "Cosmic Scholar" author John Szwed documents the life of polymath Harry Smith. #book#BookReview#biography#nonfictionmypointbeing.com/2024/05/28/c...
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith John Szwed Farrar, Straus and Giroux (August 22, 2023), 493 pages Kindle edition $16.99, Amazon paperback $22.00 Harry Smith was an obscure individual...