The Long Road, or thoughts along the way: April 2009

It wasn't until I was walking in the door at work, wondering why everyone was looking at me kinda funny, that I realized I forgot to put on pants this morning!

Books that I've recently read

"The Shadow of the Gods" by John Gwynne
"The Fight for $15: The Right Wage for a Working America" by David Rolf
"Pedro Páramo" by Juan Rulfo
"Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life" by Jim Murphy
"Time Must Have a Stop" by Aldous Huxley
"Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign" by Michael K. Honey
"Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”" by Héctor Tobar
"Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother" by Sonia Nazario
"Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America" by Michael Reid
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values" by Robert M. Pirsig
"Dead in Their Tracks: Crossing America’s Desert Borderlands in the New Era" by John Annerino
"The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business" by Charles Duhigg
"Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor" by Kim Kelly
"Hard Line: Life and Death on the U.S.-Mexico Border" by Ken Ellingwood
"El libro de las preguntas" by Pablo Neruda
"The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography" by Miriam Pawel
"Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement" by Jane McAlevey
"The Stone Sky" by N.K. Jemisin
"The Obelisk Gate" by N.K. Jemisin
"The Fifth Season" by N.K. Jemisin
"Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans" by Ronald Takaki
"Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times" by Donald T. Phillips
"The Essential Wooden: A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership" by John Wooden and Steve Jamison
""They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration" by Aviva Chomsky
"Kwame Nkrumah: The Conakry Years, His Life and Letters" compiled by June Milne
"The Weatherman" by Steve Thayer
"Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry" by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
"Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals" by Oliver Burkeman
"A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy" by Jane McAlevey
"The Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way" translated by Helen Bacovcin
"A History of America in Ten Strikes" by Erik Loomis
"Ideas and Opinions" by Albert Einstein
"The Seasons of Life: A Companion for the Poetic Journey" by Hermann Hesse
"The Fire Last Time: 1968 and After" by Chris Harman
"Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor" by Steven Greenhouse
"East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio" by Ricardo Romo
"There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America" by Philip Dray
"Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian" by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
"America’s Reconstruction: People and Politics after the Civil War" by Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney
"Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity" by Michael A. Messner
"First World, Ha, Ha, Ha! The Zapatista Challenge" edited by Elaine Katzenberger
"Always a Rebel: Ricardo Flores Magón and the Mexican Revolution" by Ward S. Albro
"An Introduction to Labor Law" by Michael Evan Gold
"The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement" by Miriam Pawel
""They're Bankrupting Us!": And 20 Other Myths about Unions" by Bill Fletcher Jr.
"Voices of Labor: History of the Working Class" by Steve Sears
"No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age" by Jane McAlevey
"Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law" by Staughton Lynd & Daniel Gross
"Why Unions Matter" by Michael D. Yates
"The Other Wind" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"Tales from Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"Chicana Falsa: And Other Stories of Death, Identity, & Oxnard" by Michele M. Serros
"Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
"Under the Volcano" by Malcolm Lowry
"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change" by Stephen R. Covey
"The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
"Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms" by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
"Joe Hill" by Gibbs M. Smith
"How Real is Real? Confusion, Disinformation, Communication" by Paul Watzlawick
"The Farthest Shore" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux" by James O. Gump
"The Tombs of Atuan" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"The Violence of Love" by Oscar Romero
"A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement" by Thomas Geoghegan
"Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
"The Winter of Our Discontent" by John Steinbeck
"The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Magic of Thinking Big" by David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
"The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
"Beneath the Wheel" by Hermann Hesse
"Some Nerve: Lessons Learned While Becoming Brave" by Patty Chang Anker
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
"Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose" by Matthew Kelly
"The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It" by Michael E. Gerber
"Selected Essays" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis
"The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom" by Miguel Ruiz
"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
"Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World" by Stuart Diamond
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez
"Mexico City Blues (242 Choruses)" by Jack Kerouac
"Blindness" by José Saramago
"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
"The Journey to the East" by Hermann Hesse
"The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic: How Engaging 1% of Catholics Could Change The World" by Matthew Kelly
"Keeping It Civil: The Case of the Pre-nup and the Porsche & Other True Accounts from the Files of a Family Lawyer" by Margaret Klaw
"The War Against Oblivion: Zapatista Chronicles, 1994-2000" by John Ross
"New Testament"
"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
"Living Flame of Love" by St. John of the Cross
"The Power and the Glory" by Graham Greene
"The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" by Friedrich Engels
"Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs
"The Seven Storey Mountain: An Autobiography of Faith" by Thomas Merton
"The Pilgrimage" by Paulo Coelho
"The Wandering Falcon" by Jamil Ahmad
"Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
"Poem of the Deep Song" by Federico García Lorca
"God Dies by the Nile" by Nawal El Saadawi
"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
"On Becoming a Leader" by Warren Bennis
"I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala" by Rigoberta Menchú
"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
"Paris Spleen" by Charles Baudelaire
"Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut
"The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language" by Eugene H. Peterson
"A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation" by Gustavo Gutiérrez
"Death in the Afternoon" by Ernest Hemingway
"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
"This Side of Paradise" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"By Night in Chile" by Roberto Bolaño
"The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse" by Hermann Hesse
"Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877" by Eric Foner
"José Martí Reader: Writings on the Americas" edited by Deborah Shnookal and Mirta Muñiz
"Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman
"Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
"Tortilla Flat" by John Steinbeck
"Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63" by Taylor Branch
"The Labyrinth of Solitude and other writings" by Octavio Paz
"The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" by Jose Saramago
"Haroun and the Sea of Stories" by Salman Rushdie
"Deterring Democracy" by Noam Chomsky
"Candide" by Voltaire
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" as told to Alex Haley
"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
"A Separate Reality: Further Conversations With Don Juan" by Carlos Castaneda
"The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems" edited by Mark Eisner
"Revolutionary Suicide" by Huey P. Newton
"Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" by Eduardo Galeano
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
"Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'Connor
"My Antonia" by Willa Cather
"Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail" by Ruben Martinez
"The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics" by Herbert Marcuse
"The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" by Barack Obama
"The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
"O Pioneers!" by Willa Cather
"Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" by Barack Obama
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein
"American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia" by Edmund S. Morgan
"You Can't Win" by Jack Black
"Dune" by Frank Herbert
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem" by Joan Didion
"Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women" by Susan Faludi
"Across The Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border" by Luis Alberto Urrea
"Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong" by James Loewen
"The Tortilla Curtain" by T.C. Boyle
"The Big Money" by John Dos Passos
"The Devil's Highway: A True Story" by Luis Alberto Urrea
"1919" by John Dos Passos
"Dying To Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History" by Jorge Ramos
"The 42nd Parallel" by John Dos Passos
"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde
"Play It As It Lays" by Joan Didion
"The Trial" by Franz Kafka
"Coyotes: A Journey Across the Borders with America's Illegal Migrants" by Ted Conover
"Miles: The Autobiography" by Miles Davis
"The Fifth Mountain" by Paulo Coelho
"The Naked and the Dead" by Norman Mailer
"Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller

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