Faithful

Tonight, 13 years ago, in another world, in another life, Maggie and I married.
Maggie, you have remained so very faithful to me. When it was easy and difficult, you have stayed committed and supportive to me in every way. When life, work and fatherhood stretched and stressed me to my limits, I never had to worry (you never gave me reason to worry) of our relationship, of your love for me, of your patience with my weaknesses.
You complete me, and I cannot imagine, do not want to imagine, this journey without you, without the comfort of knowing that you are there with me and for me.

God Made a Farmer

2012 Books I Listened To

I can now listen to books at work by downloading from the Cobb Library. Looking back, it's been a pretty good audible year.

• My Favorite: Now and Forever tied with Animal Farm, with the tie going to Bradbury, in his honor.
• Unexpectedly Good: learning a bit about President Ford
• Didn't live up to expectations: Guns, Germs & Steel. It may not translate well to listening...

1. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
2. Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fate of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
3. Bloody Jack Adventure Series, Book 1 - L.A. Meyer
4. I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Bill Bryson
5. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
6. Write it When I'm Gone, Conversations with Gerald R. Ford - Thomas Defrank
7. Back to Work - Bill Clinton
8. Dark Wind - Tony Hillerman
9. Down Under - Bill Bryson
10. A Rage for Glory - James Tertius de Kay
11. Rumpole of the Bailey - John Mortimer
12. Known and Unknown - Donald Rumsfeld
13. Drive - Daniel Pink
14. The Great Bridge - David McCullough
15. Now and Forever - Ray Bradbury
16. Next - Michael Crichton
17. The ascent of money: a financial history of the world - Niall Ferguson
18. The Russian Revolution: from Tsarism to Bolshevism - Jon Smele
19. The Land that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
20. Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
21. Area 51 - Annie Jacobsen
22. Animal Farm - George Orwell