100 Places to go before they Disappear. This is a book about all the wonderful places being affected by climate change through rising sea levels, retreating ice, changing growing seasons, and loss of groundwater. Creating a Forest Garden: working with nature to grow edible crops by Martin Crawford. I saw a movie about Permaculture at […]
Midas Touch: why some entrepreneurs get rich and why most don’t by Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki I read a lot of business books and most are full of great information. In this book, the authors have presented information from the trenches in a way that is practical and useable. They talked about business concepts […]
This is a great book to read as I’m thinking about creating the best experience for people working with us (as staff, Business Owners and partners). The Table of Contents is a checklist to measure progress so here goes: How to be Likeable – most people would agree I’m a likeable person. I’ve been working […]
It’s hard to believe that it is May. April went by in a whirl of taxes and garden prep. (http://crystalclarion.wordpress.com/ my Good Life blog) That Summer in Paris: memories of tangled friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald and some others by Morley Callaghan. Makes you wonder where the new Paris is and who the new intelligentsia are. […]
Coastliners: a novel by Joanne Harris. Another of the Gretchin Rubin happy novels. This one at least has a happy ending. The Sentamentalists: a novel by Johanna Skibsrud. Published here in Kentville at Gaspereau Press and winner of the Giller Prize. I didn’t get all of it, but I still enjoyed it. How to Be […]
Ivana Sendaka writes a post every month about the books she has read. I’m part of her super cool gang and I appreciate reading what books she has read and what she thinks about them. So I’m imitating her idea – that being the sincerest form of flattery. I started the month and the year […]
