by Debbie Boyce | Mar 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
My year of reading a book a week has officially finished. In some ways I succeeded, albeit with some substitutions of articles, movies, documentaries and podcasts for books. At the opening of 2024, friends published their readings, which dwarfed mine and I was...
by Debbie Boyce | Jan 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Happy New Year, friends! I am seeing other lists of books on Facebook and in Christmas letters that my friends have read in 2023. I am always interested in what others are reading. It gives me a wider list from which to pick what I read next. I am still working on...
by Debbie Boyce | Oct 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
This is the 4th in my series on books I have been reading in 2023. These are books 19-24. I want to reiterate that my reports attempt to give neutral summaries of each book, so that I discipline myself to listen to each author, rather than to criticize. I continue...
by Debbie Boyce | Oct 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
We are writing a series on Beauty. This is the last planned post of the series. I alluded in the last post to two problems – one being our self-perception that we are ugly in part because of the world’s fixation on a certain outward standard for women, rather...
by Debbie Boyce | Sep 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
This is the 3rd in my series of posts on books I have been reading this year. The following books, podcasts and documentaries are from weeks 13-18. As before, I am making brief comments on each book, and have longer notes if you are interested. I want to...
by Debbie Boyce | Sep 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Several years ago, my husband, Bill, saw an article on improving one’s immune system and general health with some daily deep breathing exercises and cold showers. (This is probably related to the practice of “cold plunges,” but it’s not the same.) The breathing...