2018 Notes to Myself: No. 1
For the last two or three years, I've done Notes to Myself in lieu of those all-too-meaningless New Year Resolutions. Ordinarily, I post them one-a-day during the month of January, but I wanted to participate in Susannah Conway's Gentle January meme, so this year I'm posting in February. This is a prescription that I won't have any hesitation in following. I am an unabashed bibliophile. I love to read and be enthralled by a captivating story. Or, for that matter, to learn something new, to be exposed to divergent points of view, and sometimes to be awed -- not by words -- but by stunning photographs. After I sold the house I'd shared with my spouse (now the spouse of someone else) and bought a much more modest home of my own, I donated hundreds of books to the local library for its annual book sale. I kept hundreds, perhaps over a thousand, more and had to pack and move them. I also had to buy...