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Does there come a day in every man's life when he finds a transition from the upslope straight line to a peak and then decline? I can't be alone in this, can I?
The pattern is universal, according to the social scientist Arthur Brooks who wrote From Strength to Strength . After the age of fifty, you might find your reaching peak performance. Your decisions might not be as crisp as they once were. Your instincts are less reliable. Your productivity isn't as high.
Maybe
Chocolate
When my friend returned from her Swiss trip, she brought us chocolate resembling the iconic Matterhorn Glacier. That's pyramid-shaped chocolate with a dash of white colour at the top.
That reminds me of the memoir of Trevor Noah, who was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother. As a kid, Trevor didn't know what race was. To him, people were like different types of chocolate. His dad was the white chocolate, mom was the dark chocolate, and he was
Carrie
DPC
Historical fiction is often the most gripping witness to war. My recent favorite is Kristin Hannah's The Women , which takes me to the Vietnam War around 1967.
One of the women in this fiction is a twenty-year-old nurse Frances McGrath who joined the Army Nurse Corps. Let us not forget, indeed, that women can be heroes .
The story of this green nurse Frances McGrath in Vietnam is all blood and sweats. Her workplace was an operating table on wheels, and she lived
GUP
Comedian
No manual of writing style that I know has a word to say of good humour; and yet, for me, a fiction about a comedian can sometimes be the most awkward theme to have laughable ideas.
It's a difficult subject, and try as you might, there is no way to make this sort of story a reading pleasure.
Not that the author Dolly Alderton thought it that way. She has written Good Material , a modern-day story of love and break-up; one of the main
YA Fiction
Insult
Digital communciation is one of the most common channels for discussion. Whenever we can't (and often we can't) talk face to face, we make use of the live chat, emails, text messaging or voicemail.
What many people don't realize is that navigating the digital communication – and being successful in getting the message across – is a herculean task. If there's one thing you should know about the pitfall, it's the way to respond to an insult.
I soon came
Cassava
A commonly quoted reason for working memory failure is overload. We try to hang onto too much, and then push our memory past its limits. No less important than overload is mind-wandering. We're grabbed by some attention-seeking thoughts and our mind gets hijacked.
The question, for me, is how many books I should start reading. One after another? Different books at the same time? Once again, this is a question I don't have the answer but I tend to be promiscuous
Poverty
It's hard for us to imagine the life in Mozambique with a shockingly high child mortality rate. It's even harder for me to read the stories haranguing the Swedish doctor Hans Rosling serving an emergency clinic in Mozambique.
Better known for writing another bestselling book Factfulness , Hans Rosling has written a memoir How I Learned to Understand the World .
I admitted that his stories are indeed opening our eyes to poverty outside our comfort zone. And it is impossible to read without ooh and ahh.
One late afternoon in the