“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - Mark Twain When sitting down to review my reads for the year, and compiling my list, themes generally present themselves - and you'd have to be a coconut not to think on them for a moment, or perhaps speak of them. … Continue reading 2013 – End of Year Book Review
2012 – Year End Book Review
It was a wonderful, terrible, challenging, peaceful, and riotous year -- and that's to say nothing of the 62 books I got through. But, as always, amidst the noisy tumult that is life, I read; rainy afternoons tucked in a corner of The Hubbard Free Library, dark cold lonely January mornings wrapped in a blanket … Continue reading 2012 – Year End Book Review
A Look Back – The Books of 2011
I love to read, and I love to know what everyone else is reading and what they're thinking about it all. Nothing is quite as pleasing as running my eyes down a long list of books, and noting what I've also read, what I would never read, and perhaps a few I'd wondered about. Such … Continue reading A Look Back – The Books of 2011
How to get Paid to do a Sleep Study
Here are some useful tips for those who are looking to make some extra money doing a paid sleep study. Selling Yourself to Science I recently embarked on the interesting and unusual adventure of participating in a paid nine day sleep study. I found out about the study through an add on Craigslist. I have … Continue reading How to get Paid to do a Sleep Study
Thibeau’s Books 2010
The Gravy Reading has always been a necessity for me. That thing I do no matter what, rain or shine, sickness and health, good times and bad. I find it to be the most constant and consistent quality of my life, and for that I am grateful. I am lucky to be surrounded by avid … Continue reading Thibeau’s Books 2010
Book Recommendations to Change the World
Wake up and be the Revolution May 2011 In a society where wealthy and powerful forces are trying to keep us asleep, confused, passive, and weak it is very difficult to convey with enough passion, force, and emphasis what serious trouble our world is in and how little time we have to create the broad … Continue reading Book Recommendations to Change the World
The Worst Books of 2010
Thibeau gets Salty Someone Throw Me a Rope! It is in our darkest times, and our darkest hours, that I feel we are true, and possibly divine. It is in these moments, too, that we learn, that an alchemy takes place and we become something better, stronger and more precious still. This can happen in … Continue reading The Worst Books of 2010
A Visit to the Topless Coffee Bar in Vassalboro, ME
I'm Not Here For The Coffee Saturday at three in the afternoon I walked into the "lobby" of the Topless Coffee Bar in Vassalboro, Maine. I looked to my left and there stood a girl of about 22, tan, topless, and smiling. I turned to my friend, still coming in the door, and smiled. It … Continue reading A Visit to the Topless Coffee Bar in Vassalboro, ME