Monthly Archives: September 2019

13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do (book review)

What caught my eye when I was considering reading Amy Morin’s “13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do” was (1) the title and (2) these chapter headings: CHAPTER 1 THEY DON’T WASTE TIME FEELING SORRY FOR THEMSELVESCHAPTER 2 THEY DON’T GIVE AWAY THEIR POWERCHAPTER 3 THEY DON’T SHY AWAY FROM CHANGECHAPTER 4 THEY DON’T FOCUS ON THINGS THEY CAN’T CONTROLCHAPTER …

Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions (book review)

With the 50th anniversary of the successful Apollo 11 moon landing this summer I have been watching every documentary and reading books on this historic event. I’ve always been fascinated by the space program (I reviewed the book American Moonshot on this blog earlier this year). Yet the best material I have found on the Apollo program and the moon …