Notes:
Boston Globe
1. Henry Haller, obit, executive chef for the White House
Therapy during the pandemic
2. Tommy Heinsohn and Mike Gorman
3. Scott Watkins, obit
4. Karen Killilea, obit, advocate for rights for people with disabilities
New York Times
5. Therapy during the pandemic
6. Chartreuse made at a monastery in France
7. Twas' the Night Before Christmas for pets
8. Outnumbered
9. Color words
10. Daily Planner Essentials - free template
Notes: (* Boston Globe, ** Wall Street Journal, *** New York Times)
1. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Inspiration ***
2. Gideon Gartner, obit, research guru **
3. Book: Intimations - Zadie Smith **
4. Fish Camouflage **
5. Book: Mozart: The reign of love - Jan Swafford **
6. Martinis and Civilization **
7. The Darker Side of Christmas **
8. Jacqueliine Novogratz, Founder & CEO, Acumen **
9. Nothing Taboo in this church **
10. Tony Slonim, responding to crisis as a doctor
11. Albert Berard, obit, being a Navy man was his identity *
12. Burning desire to say goodbye to 2020 **
13. Fractional-share trading **
14. Tech checklist before you die **
15. Book: She come by it naturally: Dolly Parton and the women who lived her songs - Sarah Smarsh ***
16. Listening to classical music with Garry Kasparov, chess grandmaster ***
17. Color words
18. What are your passions, hobbies, and interests?
Notes:
1. Ten Times More Organized Course
2. New occupation: Mediatrician
3. Walmart’s TikTok Deal
4. Creepy Stories for Christmas
5. Dr. Jerrold M. Post, psychological profiler
6. Nikki Giovanni, poet
7. Color Words
Notes:
Boston Globe:
1. Maybe we need sages and monks to make our tough decisions
2. Rev. Liz Walker persuades Black people to take the vaccine
3. John Le Carre, obit, author of spy books
Wall Street Journal
4. Painful changes we had to make at work during 2020
5. Book: Gray Matter: 71/2 lessons about the brain - Lisa Feldman Barrett
6. Dr. Jill Biden
7. C-Suite Strategies section
8. CEO Spotlight section
New York Times
9. Students kidnapped in Nigeria (gratitude for what we have when you think about how difficult things are for others)
10. Book: My Struggle - autobiography by Karl von Knausgaard, fashion icon
11. Taylor Swift’s new album, Evermore
12. Queen’s Gambit causing more females to play chess
13. Color words
Notes:
Boston Globe
1. Book: Red comet: The short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark Knopf
2. Little girl loves new vocabulary
3. New way to play chess
4. Intriguing opening lines
New York Times
5. Recipes:
* Rice cake soup with bok choy & edamame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7f26d-AIrM
* Pasta with bacon, cheese, lemon, & pine nuts
* White borscht
6. Convey different tones with body language
7. Tattoo artist, Mira Mariah
8. Books:
Is this anything? - Jerry Seinfeld
Mindful thoughts at home - Kate Peers
10 lessons for a post-pandemic world - Fareed Zakaria
JFK: Coming of age in the American century - Fredrik Logevall
A certain hunger - Chelsea G. Summers
Group: How one therapist and a circle of strangers changed my life - Christie Tate
The sun collective - Charles Baxter
The Ickabog - JK Rowling
Dolly Parton, Songteller - DOlly Parton
Eleanor - David Michaelis
9. Creativity: A short & cheerful guide - John Cleese
10. Color words
Notes:
Boston Globe
1. Neil Krieger, obit, neuroscientist, bioluminescence
2. Godfather 2
3. Stella Sullivan, obit, 96, “that dirty bird virus”
4. Dad pays for son’s first legal beer
5. Joan Baez, painter
6. Massachusetts Conference for Woman
Wall Street Journal
7. New rule in England: can only serve alcohol with a “substantial meal”
8. Tony Hsieh’s unwieldy estate
9-10. Consumer psychology: sloppy vs neat present wrapping
11. The Lindler brothers and fishing business
12. Walter E. Williams, obit, good or bad? hold space
13. Microsoft engineer, Eric Engstrom, obit
14. Margaret Chase Smith, courageous senator
15. Autism/invention connection
16. Older people are happier than younger
17. Book: Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present - Ruth Ben-Ghiat
18. Atomic Habits - James Clear
19. Resilient systems in nature
20. Dan Ariely: make tasks manageable, peak-end rule
21. Monastery in Switzerland
22. Recipe: Delicata squash with cauliflower puree, brown butter, and hazelnuts
23. Solution for rock-hard brown sugar
24. Steven Soderbergh, director, interview
25. Jen Atkins, hair product CEO, Ouai
26. Goldie Hawn, non-profit, MindUP
Notes:
1. TV recs: Pennyworth & The Wilds (NYT)
2. Documentary: Gunda (follows a family of pigs) (NYT)
3. Deb Price, obit, ground-breaking gay columnist (NYT)
4. Building homes on the moon (WSJ)
5. Amphibious homes (WSJ)
6. High-tech fresh air (WSJ)
7. Digital nomad, Alan Frei (WSJ)
8. Book: Brazil that never was - A.J. Lees (WSJ)
9. Fire-inspired artwork, Dave Cole (B. GLOBE)
10. Smoky cocktails, https://www.tiktok.com/@johnrondi
11. Cigar reviews, https://www.tiktok.com/@cigarprop
Notes:
1. Los Angelis Rams coach, Sean McVay inspired by Patriots coach, Bill Belichick: “Consistency is the truest measure of performance.”
2. Shakespeare quote: “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions” - from Hamlet
3. Book: Breaking bread with the dead - Alan Jacobs
4. Pantone colors for 2021
5. Book: How science taught Leonardo Davinci to paint - Francesca Fiorani
Notes:
1. Swiss cheese defense for the pandemic: multiple layers of defense are very effective (NYT)
2. Honeypot: catching hackers by luring them in, deceptive technology (WSJ)
3. Reignite the spark in your relationship during the pandemic (WSJ)
4. Help your teenagers focus (WSJ)
5. Ferrari lover, Chanterria McGilbra, philanthropist/founder of Prancing Ponies Foundation (leadership for young women) (WSJ)
6. Book: Friends and Enemies - Barbara Amiel (WSJ)
7. Chuck Yeager, obit, broke the sound barrier (B. GLOBE)
8. Recipes: Taiwanese beef noodle soup, latkes, spice-rubbed braised brisket, & caramelized sheet-pan French toast (NYT)
9. Barack Obama: how he became an effective storyteller and writer (NYT)
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