Ebooks and two good reads

I have heard objections and reasons why some people don't like ebooks, (electronic books).  Some like the heft of a book.  Some like the scent of a book. When I first bought Amazon ebooks, I worried that some books I wanted to read might not be available through Kindle books.  Now, I have 3600 of their books.  They tend to be cheaper than paper books and they are much faster to acquire.  It does take an electrically charged device to read them but if a person has a cellphone, tablet, Kindle reader or computer, charging is quite familiar.  

There are various services and possibilities with Kindle books but the main differences are in weight and in speed of obtaining ebooks.  Since they are nearly weightless and take up just about no space, having a large number of them is not like having shelves and shelves of paper books. When I take a Kindle reader in my bag, I am taking quick access to thousands of books.

When I learn of a book I am interested in, I usually have a copy after a few clicks.  I can start reading immediately.

A friend recommended the book "One Thousand White Women" by Jim Fergus.  After I read a bit to Lynn, she agreed to listen to the whole book read aloud by me.  

"Why do men have nipples?" by Leyner and Goldberg consists of many often-asked questions about our bodies and their care.

CNN Photos of the week 10/5/2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/world/gallery/photos-this-week-september-25-october-02?

Skirts

When I was in the third grade, I asked a girl to go to the Saturday afternoon movies with me.  I think I got a ride to her house from my parents or maybe rode a bike.  I don't remember the movie.  Many of the Saturday cowboy movies were quite similar.  A hero, Gene Autry or Hopalong Cassidy or Tim Holt, had to straighten out some bad guys.

When I was in the fifth grade, I purposely dropped something on the floor so I had an excuse to get under a group round table.  From there, I could look up the girls' dresses.  All I could see was white underpants.  Not very thrilling.

I knew I enjoyed trying to understand people and their feelings, fears, impulses, personal convictions and habits.  I discovered the local teachers' college was quite inexpensive so I went there.  Most of the other guys in my all-male high school looked for a high salary.  I had no salary at the time and put off thinking about money.  The teachers' college was about 80% girls, very different from an all-male school.  I dated a gorgeous girl who was intrigued by the books I carried and read.  In my junior year, I started dating the woman I have been married to for 65 years..

Some graduate courses later, after four years of teaching the fifth grade, I became a faculty member of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point.

Home!

We are back.  We tried to find a trip that appealed to us both and after several misfires, decided to drive around Lake Superior.  After a while it got too repetitious and we came back.  We still love and admire each other, and are proud of our 65 year marriage. The trip used Lynn's car and she drove until yesterday.  I suffered multiple zones of road repair and one-laned roads but have recovered from my single experience driving while she rested and put her attention elsewhere.  Don't expect us to try again.