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Top 50 Books to Read Next List
This is my reading list. What I’ve read, what I’m reading, what I’m going to read next. As an English major, I feel that it my sworn duty to at least attempt to be well read. My goal is to read interesting, entertaining, meaningful books by gifted authors and expand my mind. Continue reading
Sonoran Desert Snyder Family Letter | 2024
The first night he pooped something awful on the floor and then later barfed in bed. So, now you’ve got my attention. He gets up again for a third time and it sounds like he’s going to barf. I grab him and – like that old commercial of O.J. Simpson running through the airport – I run to the back door. There’s no lights on. I don’t have my phone to light the way. I’m not wearing my glasses. I not wearing clothes. I’m in my underwear, walking like a blind man, no shoes on, stepping on rocks, but I’ve gotten him outside. I Continue reading
Sonoran Desert Snyder Family Letter | 2023
So, we find ourselves at Del Charro, the final stop on the Santa Fe Margarita Trail. I ordered the Santa Fe Trail Margarita, which, in addition to the Hatch Chile-infused tequila, also includes a handful of actual Santa Fe Trail gravel and a few sticks. According to a local reviewer, the margarita “will knock the socks off a timid out-of-towner.” Thankfully, I’m not timid, nor was I wearing socks. Continue reading
42nd Avenue
Our family home was on 41st and Vera Cruz, one block off the main drag, 42nd, which runs straight through town. Everything was right off 42nd. Our church, the junior high, Joyce’s old apartment, Margaret’s old apartment. Spanjers Park, where Jon and I played softball and my very first library, the Robbinsdale Library, a little home for books built in 1925 by the Robbinsdale Library Club. Continue reading
Remembering Paul Gaulke
ShareTweet Paul Gaulke, my best friend from college, passed away this past Monday after a 10-year battle with cancer. He was our best man when Rose and I married. Thankfully, I was able to speak to him on Sunday and … Continue reading
Sonoran Desert Snyder Family Letter | 2022
That first used puzzle we bought, well, it wasn’t a great experience. I opened the box thinking it would just be like opening any puzzle box, but I wasn’t prepared. In and amongst the pieces, I found … hair. Human hair? Cat hair? Did a dog own this puzzle? Honestly, I’m not sure how or why I proceeded, but I did. I wanted to do the puzzle; it was a circle. Continue reading
My Favorite Books of 2021
ShareTweet My Favorite Books of 2021 Fiction 10. Beloved, by Toni Morrison A Pulitzer Prize winning novel that tells the story of a family of former slaves in the aftermath of their enslavement. Writers and critics ranked the novel as … Continue reading
