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Winter Reading List, 2020-2021

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on December 13, 2020

A warm fire, a cozy chair, a hot mug of tea or a dram of…

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  • Baltimore

Zoom Foreground

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on July 13, 2020July 13, 2020

It is the ‘zoom background’ that is so frequently talked about these days.  From meetings…

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Reading, Watching, Listening

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on June 12, 2020June 12, 2020

One in an occasional series… In terms of reading, I am in the home stretch…

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Summer Reading List 2020

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on May 22, 2020May 22, 2020

Until the End of Time by Brian Greene – (Mind, Matter, and Our Search for…

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Lovelight

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on September 25, 2019September 25, 2019

It was the slightest thing, just barely noticeable.  Maybe it was my own sense of…

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Summer Reading 2019

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on May 3, 2019May 3, 2019

How To Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan – With the recent popularity of meditation…

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Same as it Ever Was

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on April 5, 2019

In the fall of 1980 the Talking Heads released their fourth studio album, entitled ‘Remain…

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In Defense of Clutter

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on February 13, 2019February 13, 2019

There is a tidying up fad that is seeping through our culture these days.  Sparked…

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Winter Reading

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on December 18, 2018

As the nights get longer and the days colder one might be tempted to spend…

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Summer Reading List 2018*

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on May 31, 2018May 31, 2018

Each year around Memorial Day I publish a summer reading list, letting the congregation know…

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