My sister-in-law Kayla, the graphic-designer extraordinaire, gave me three design books that have inspired her. So far, they’ve done the same for me.

I got tagged by Chuck Mallot today tagging me. He told the world about his bookstack, and requested that I do the same. So here is my bookstack:

Caleb and I made our weekly library trip today. This is always one of Caleb’s favorite days of the week. It is a fight to get him to return any book to the library. We check out around 20 books every week, and they let you keep them for three weeks. So at any given time we have up to 60 library books.

Over the weekend I wrote a book review for A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink. The review was posted on Godbit.com. This is a fascinating book that talks about how, according to the author, we’re already moving out of the information age and into to the conceptual age. In this conceptual age, new skills and abilities will need to be focused on if we’re to survive. A highly recommend the book. Read the full review.

When I arrived to pick Caleb up from Heather and Rachel’s house today Caleb was waving around a book called Hello Baby. He started begging for me to read it to him. Heather said she had read it to him a dozen times already.

I’ve been to Washington once, but never made it to the Iwo Jima Memorial. Never knew it was there to be honest with you. Next time I go, I’ll see it. I’ll take Caleb when he’s old enough. We’ll walk down the rows of tombstones in Arlington National cemetery. We’ll talk about freedom. We’ll talk about why freedom is so magnificent. We’ll talk about why it must be protected.

I stopped by the Half-Price Bookstore recently. They sale used books. In their clearance section I picked up a book called Couplehood by Paul Reiser. You know, he’s the guy who played with Helen Hunt on that no longer running TV show called “Mad About You.” The book is hilarious. I picked [...]