Susan's Corner

A favorite quote- “"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.".” ~Frank Lloyd Wright Holiday Reading List: Eating to Extinction by D. Saladino, Power Failure by W. Cohan and Geopolitical Alpha...

Upcoming November Events I’m Excited About:   Annual History Dinner (Dinner with Benjamin Franklin) for the Sandra Day O’Connor Institute for American Democracy. Walter Isaacson is the featured author and historian. I just love his books. Dimensional’s Advanced...

MIT Technology Review is another of my favorite publications. Susie Cagle’s article What One Tree Can(‘t) Do from the July issue sums up the incredible power of a tree and all the ways they nurture us. Notable Quote: “Patience and diligence, like faith, remove...

Currently reading: Rather than just one book, I’m currently reading daily through an app/site called Substack. I first heard about it from an article in my favorite magazine, The Week. It’s an online platform that allows writers to send digital newsletters directly to...

Currently reading: Walking With Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne. A memoir by one of my favorite actors. Notable Quote:“ Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.” ~Thomas Huxley Joe Queenan wrote...

Currently Reading: The Splendid and The Vile by Erik Larson. A saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz Notable Quote: “Everything in life, individually or socially is a tradeoff. We determine the risk levels we’re willing to tolerate within the context...

Currently Reading: Nudge, The Final Edition by Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein. The University of Chicago Economist and Nobel Laureate teamed up Harvard Law professor, Cass R Sunstein to update their original work. It’s a fantastic read in psychology and...

Quotes for March: “I use not only all the brains I have but all I can borrow.” ~ Woodrow Wilson “Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.” ~Malcolm Forbes Currently Reading: The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel   I’m a foodie. I love to...

Favorite book read over the holiday season: A Fish Caught in Time by Samantha Weinberg Quote to ponder – “There is something admirable that always surpasses knowledge, intelligence, and even genius, and that is incomprehension.” ~ The anomaly, Victor Miesel   Until...