Category Archives: Book & Movie Reviews
Finish Strong – a Book Review
Book Review: Finish Strong: Putting Your Priorities First at Life’s End by Barbara Coombs Lee [...]
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Retiring Without Children? Sara Zeff Geber Can Help
PowerSpeaking former trainer and board member, Sara Zeff Geber has just published a valuable book [...]
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Mar
Miscellanea / Recommendations
Fire in the Belly; Stories of Love and Passion – Huge Hit Video of the [...]
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Jul
Recommendations
Youtube: The Gunfighter. A Short Film by Eric Kissack Youtube: Chef Buck, and his partner, [...]
Recommendations
Sully Don’t miss this wonderful movie. Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood (director) do a fabulous [...]
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Sep
Science is Like an Anthill
The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee is a captivating tale about the struggle to understand heredity. [...]
Recommendations
Horace and Pete Produced by Louis C.K., this is a fabulous 10-part TV show you [...]
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Apr
Movie and Book Recommendations
Books The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Fabulous book by a great historian. Traces in [...]
Story of a German War Baby
“Gitta” Carnochan commented, “I had always assumed that just surviving the war in Germany with [...]
Jun
Book Review: The Well-Versed Parent
The Well-Versed Parent by Jane E. Hunter, MD Have a child in your life? [...]
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May
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
Book Review: Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry by Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD “Anyone [...]
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Mar
Why Fury is Better Than American Sniper
The last few years have produced some amazing war movies: Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, [...]
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Book Review: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
If you are a “Baby Boomer,” you probably have parents who are dealing with end-of-life [...]
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Movie Reviews: Two Clunkers; One Winner
Wild I’m not clear why this made so many of the “year’s best” lists. A [...]
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Book Review: Possibilities
“My mother is still mad that I left the symphony. When I stopped playing classical [...]
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Jan
On the Road with Janis Joplin
by John Byrne Cooke John Byrne Cooke was the road manager for Big Brother [...]
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Marilyn
by Gloria Steinem “The only alternative to being a feminist is being a masochist.” – [...]
Book Review: The Crash of 2016
The Crash of 2016 by Thom Hartman Thom Hartman makes the case that from [...]
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Begin Again
Begin Again is a mediocre movie. The movie rides on just two ideas: • [...]
Obvious Child
Obvious Child (the Anti-Juno and Anti-Knocked Up Indie Film) Do you know anyone who has [...]
Movie Review: Jersey Boys
I am a huge Clint Eastwood fan. Million Dollar Baby was the best film of [...]
Gloria
Gloria(Chile w/ subtitles) Tired of seeing all the young, beautiful 20-somethings having all the fun [...]
Chef
What a delightful movie. If you’re a foodie, don’t miss this one. It is loaded [...]
Book Review: Speaking Up: Surviving Executive Presentations (Chinese Version)
Happy to report that my book, Speaking Up: Surviving Executive Presentations has been translated into [...]
May
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