Musings and Ruminations

"I write to find out what I think." Joan Didion. "Qu'est ce que je sais"-What do you know? "a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog know one big thing" Archilochus I studied most of my life for credentials, now I study as a Polymath. This blog is my personal ruminations. I invite you along to explore many things. I won't promise that it will all be interesting, but I promise that the thoughts are honest. I realized, relatively late, that life is for the living. So, it was time to live.

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Book Review-The Club Dumas By Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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I read a good number of Pérez-Reverte’s books about three decades ago. I kept in my stash of books that I had already read because I enjoyed...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Book Review-The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper By Roland Allen

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This was a book that, on the surface, would not hook me. Yet, the published book reviews from people I respect tempted me to give it a shot....
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Book Review-Thinking in Systems: A Primer By Donella Meadows

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I had worked in companies that supplied the transportation industries, both aviation and automotive industries, which was where I became acq...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Book Review-The Geography of Genius By Eric Weiner

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 I became aware of this book when I was reading a list of  Bill Walton’s favorite books after his passing, this title popped off the page. I...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

Book Review-The Weil Conjecture: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown By Karen Olsson

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This book piqued my interest because it is advertised as a biography of a mathematician and his philosopher sister. Mathematics and philosop...
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