Book Reading List - 2017

• Thunder in the Mountains - Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War - Author: Daniel J. Sharfstein
• Vacationland - True Stories from Painful Beaches - Author: John Hodgman
• You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me – A Memoir - Author: Sherman Alexie
• Sailing Around the World - Author: Joshua Slocum
• The Shepherd’s Life - Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape - Author: James Rebanks
• Do No Harm - Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery - Author: Henry Marsh
• Al Franken, Giant of the Senate - Author Al Franken
• Ready Player One - Author: Ernest Cline
• The Heart of Everything That Is - The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend - Author: Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
• The True Flag - Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire - Author: Stephen Kinzer
• Founding Brothers - The Revolutionary Generation - Author: Joseph J. Ellis
• The Journey of Crazy Horse - A Lakota History - Author: Joseph M. Marshall III
• Heart of Darkness - Author: Kenneth Branagh
• Brave Companions - Portraits in History - Author: David McCullough
• Year Zero - Author: Rob Reid
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Author: Junot Diaz
• Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years and The War Years - Author: Carl Sandburg
• Astoria - John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival - Author: Peter Stark
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Author: Jack Weatherford
• Trevor Noah – Born A Crime - Author: Trevor Noah
• Born to Run - Author: Bruce Springstein

Here Comes the Solstice - Haiku

Here comes the solstice

Seems like years since its been clear

Sunny days are near

Climate Change Is Real - Haiku

This is not normal •
Humans need to wake up now •
Climate change is real

Thanksgiving Left-Over Make Over - Haiku

Love those left overs •

Getting my Santa belly •

Ready for Christmas

Earth Day 2017 - Haiku

Earth Day Every Day

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,

Replenish, Restore

2018 New Years Resolution - Haiku

This year I resolve ~

To try to be the person ~

My Dog thinks I am