Let It Be Known

I feel as if the good wooping I gave to my good friend Nathan Zach in TopSpin 3 demands to be  public knowledge. The writer behind Prepare the Way and the CEO of the Prayer and Healing Center in Albany, Nathan is a man who definitely does not have enough time on his hand to master the art of virtual tennis. This being said, however, I do not mean to provide my victim with an excuse, but instead some personal solace to help him sleep at night. He has fallen to the hands of a master, the King Tut of the circle button, cross court, topspin shot, angled with the precision of your grandma’s needle point.

It’s not often you come across an individual with a contagious positive attitude as well as an unassuming, accepting disposition. Please check out his blog as well as the great new Prayer and Healing Center website (great job Lidia.)

Words in My Head

Found this video of a talk by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, which even for those Oprah haters out there, is a great book. Gilbert’s words have stayed with me and I thought you may like them too.

For those who haven’t ever visited TED.com, it’s a must.

How Could I Forget

I knew I forgot a book, just didn’t think that it would be one which was as enjoyable as Rant – a laugh filled read which challenges everyday life as we know it. Chuck Palahniuk’s newest book was unforgettable, or so I thought.

Summer Reading

Recently I’ve been thankful that I’m in college and no longer have to make the trudge to the public library and look for whatever 500 pages I am required to ingest. Reading is always much more pleasurable for me when I pick out the book myself. I like that there’s no requirement to get through all the pages – although usually I do. There’s also no dreaded back to school reading test that I’ll fail because those last 100 pages weren’t worth the hassle.

Here’s what I’ve read, and have enjoyed reading, this summer. I may be forgetting some, but I am sure that, for those I have remembered below, no book report was necessary.

Dorothy Day – The Long Loneliness

Stephen Chbosky – The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Haruki Murakami – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day