I’m not ready to write this yet, so this is going to just be a start.

The most enjoyable book I’ve read in the last few years was a bio written by Michelle Obama, “Becoming.”

We couldn’t have gone through more different paths growing up and she is much, much younger than myself, but there were certain rewarding commonalities. *Actually I just googled, and she is10 years minus a day (born January 17, 1964) younger than me.

I also went back to view President Barak Obama on YouTube. Obama and Trump. The difference between night and day. I was watching his interaction with the Republican Congressional leadership and my impression was that they were smiling, but they were going to do everything they could to make sure he failed… and that was even though it would have been beneficial to most Americans if his projects had succeeded.

Yesterday I was at the new Harnett County Library near Lillington and I bought one small book, “Bloom’s Bouquet of Imaginary Words” for $2..

I quickly (just made it to my car in the parking lot) realized that this was a book well worth the price. I have laughed and laughed at the witty, thoughtful definitions. I will paraphrase the two examples that come to mind. “Shelfish – A self involved crustacean” (the illustration is of a crab standing in front of a mirror looking at himself). “A Pollygraph – An instrument for determining if a parrot is lying.” How can you not laugh at those, and there are many, many more.

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Oh, and I read a biography of Dick Van Dyke that was enjoyable. It wasn’t too many days after I finished his book that I saw him on TV. He had been endangered by the wild fires in California and someone had saved him. He had a wonderfully thankful attitude.