Author: Jennifer Hartnett-Henderson
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Beautiful Faces
Beautiful Faces by Jane Davenport has done wonders for my ability to draw a certain type of face. I love her whimsical graceful style. The book sat on my shelf for a couple of years before I finally cracked the spine and put in the time. I’ve loved it so much that I’m now taking…
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My Beer Year
My Beer Year by Lucy Birmingham shares stories from her year of learning about beer by experience in preparation for the Certified Cicerone (beer sommelier) test. She went to a hop harvest participated in a beer judging contest as a judge cleaned the lines at a pub brewed beer with new friends attended a beer…
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The Happiness Advantage
Author Shawn Achor used to suffer from depression. His book proves we can fashion happiness for ourselves. First we need to understand how it works and Achor supplies 7 principles: The Happiness Advantage: happiness is a work ethic and there are specific exercises you can do to boost your happiness: Meditate Find something to look…
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New Aging
According to a recent Pew Study, for the first time there are more Millenials than Baby Boomers. Generation X lags but not by as much as you’d think making up 27% of the total vs 30% for Boomers. Given that roughly 1/3 of the population is confronting aging (I can see Julia Child saying, “You…
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Flowers American Pale Ale
Jennifer’s Summer Stout turned out well so I thought I would brew something else. I used to not like IPAs but after tasting a few realized the tremendous range available in what appears to be a narrow category. An IPA seemed like a reasonable thing to try. My favorites are Fort George’s Vortex IPA with…
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Bad Arguments
Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, Bad Arguments: Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense, is the perfect guide to this political season. Example: Appeal to Fear: “Mr. Frog lost the election after Mr. Donkey convinced everyone that if Mr. Frog became the school Dean, soon enough, the entire university would be run by frogs. There’s…
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Come Home to Yourself
Have you ever had a “failure to communicate”? (a famous line by Paul Newman in the movie Cool Hand Luke). Thich Nhat Hanh’s The Art of Communicating will help. It Starts with You It all starts with communicating with yourself and Hanh devotes a whole chapter to it. “Many of us spend a lot of…
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The Girl
The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz continues Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series which includes The Girl with an assortment: with the Dragon Tattoo, Who Played with Fire, Who Kicked the Hornet’s nest. Larsson had plans for more books but was killed and Lagercrantz is the person who was chosen to write them. This…
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If You Love Words
I had read author Max Barry’s Jennifer Government and knew he was good. So I picked up Lexicon: A Novel, a book about: Emily Ruff, a street urchin, good with words Wil Parke, on the run, for reasons he doesn’t remember A missing word that kills in a world where words are weapons Lexicon alternates…
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Esteemed Eleanor
In her book, You Learn by Living, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote about eleven keys for a more fulfilling life. I’m just getting to know who she was as a person. She was quite a prolific and thoughtful author with a voice of the times. She was the First Lady from 1933 to 1945 and was quite…
