Kalman’s book skillfully expresses life’s disappointments in its many iterations. However her bold imperative boils down to this: when immersed in sadness, create your own happiness, discover joy in all that surrounds you! A book open to myriad interpretations, Remorse with Still Life…
Don Quixote, a novel penned more than four hundred years ago by the inimitable Miguel Cervantes, has inspired a ballet, a movie, and a Broadway musical. It continues to live on in the exquisite new fiction titled Dulcinea by author Ana Veciana-Suarez. In contrast to Don Quixote’s muse,…
Happy Birthday! You’re looking fabulous as you blow out ninety-seven candles (and one for good luck) on your special cake. Your labs show you’re as healthy as ever; blood pressure of a teenage athlete, glucose levels within “range.” You enjoyed the schnapps of your favorite sweet…
Having recently read Hostage Eli Sharabi’s phenomenally best–selling memoir, my mind turned to another work -- Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning--- in which Frankl quotes several philosophers’ opinions on life’s purpose. Nietzsche’s suggestion “He who has a Why to…
A bit of a soap opera, the novel evokes feelings of loneliness and the disaffecting malaise plaguing a “middle-aged guy getting older.” A subplot relating to racial discrimination in the NBA as well as gender issues may strike a chord with sports fans, but I can’t for the life of me…
