recommended reading

  • A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
  • Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (rack): Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
  • Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
  • Love over Scotland, Alexander McCall Smith
  • Dry Augusten Burroughs
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
  • EXTremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs
  • Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project by Dave Isay
  • Punching In, Alex Frankel

Favorite Movies

  • Hot Fuzz
  • Shaun of the Dead



From the cowardice that dare not face new truth; From the laziness that is contented with half-truth; From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, Good Lord, deliver me.—KENYAN PRAYER



Dreams are a chequered commentary made In sleep along the deeps of our desires Moving like riddles through a magic glade Lightly they touch the leap of hidden fires. John Bradburne.