Maximum marriage
I used to know a guy who took such good care of his wife, who was suffering from dementia. The impact of his love for her has never left me.
Moms in Middle Age: Rarely Alone, Often Online and Increasingly Lonely
This line of thinking pops up in almost every subreddit I follow. I don’t know what that says about me, but even in otherwise banal men’s or LGBT groups, people are grasping for meaningful relationships. For now, that’s the best term I can put on it: “meaningful relationships”.
“Amazon Unbound” by Brad Stone (ep. 013)
I read “The Everything Store” several years ago and found it fascinating. I always like to peek inside large companies that really change industries, for better or worse. “Amazon Unbound” is the follow-up to that book.
“Ikigai – The Japanese Secret to a Long, Happy Life” by Walter Dixon, et al. (ep. 012)
Ikigai is a Japanese word that roughly translates to “the reason you get up in the morning” and the researchers (I assume they’re researchers anyway) follow the advice and lives of Okinawans. Supposedly, there are more 100+ year olds living there than anywhere else in the world.
“Zero Fail” by Carol Leonig (ep. 011)
A well-written and well-documented look inside the U.S. Secret Service, largely from the time of Kennedy up to the Trump Administration. It’s an easy read with excellent storytelling, including of breaches and issues I had never heard of before.