Good Husbandry: Growing Food, Love and Family on Essex Farm 2019

This is the second farming book by journalist/ farmer, Kristin Kimball. It's a good one.  Farming, like life, is a vigorous team sport played by athletes of ordinary ability.  It's about doing the right thing in each season.  Read it.

Ahead of the Curve: Inside the Baseball Revolution by Brian Kenny (2016)

This is a book on baseball by commentator, Brian Kenny. His an opinionated guy who sides with the math guys on sabermetrics.  It's an interesting read if you know nothing about this subject.

The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food and Love by Kristin Kimball (2010)

This is first hand account of starting a farm and marrying a farmer by travel writer, Kristin Kimball.  She can write well, and the story is worth telling and hearing. It is about the transformation of a piece of land, and a life. It's about growing your own food, satisfaction, hard physical work, learning, and a long to do list.  Read it!

Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't by Steve Volk, 2011

Investigative journalist Steve Volk explores the paranormal and provides a personal ghost story and learns to dream lucidly. Other than the chapter on quantum physics, it's pretty easily digestible and interesting.  The main point?  Could have happened, or maybe it was imagined, or maybe it actually happened. Scientists and religious people should work together instead of working against each other.

Church of the Graveyard Saints (2019) by C. Joseph (Chuck) Greaves

This is a book by former Hahn & Hahn lawyer, Chuck Greaves.

It is about gas extraction in the four corners region.  A kid on a ranch comes out to UCLA, and then returns with her professor to try to a put a stop to it.

Lots of interesting information and good description of places-- the beauty and solitude of southwest Coloardo, and good old Pasadena/ Altadena.

Read it!

Piety & Power: Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House (2019)

This is one hot of the presses by investigative reporter Tom LoBianco, who had been covering Pence since his Indiana days.

It's a good story of a guy who, although no one but him knows for sure, may have traded his soul for power.  He certainly sacrificed some dignity.

The Indiana background part is interesting, too.

The First Christmas by Marcus Borg and Dominic Crossan (2007)

This is a book about Christmas by my favorite theologians, Borg and Crossan. I've read this 2 or 3 times.  They really get to the meaning of Christmas and don't bother much with whether and what parts are factual.  No matter how long you study it, there's always something new to learn about Christmas.  It's good v. evil, underdog v. the power, light v darkness.  Read this one.