Scott C Holstad: 5 Decades of Writing & Editing

Yesterday I posted a collage under the title Scott C Holstad: 5 Decades in Letters which was essentially nine pics of me in various stages and places of my writing career dating from 1988 to the present. It was easier to choose photos from some decades because those were just partial decades as opposed to others …

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AAN Swag

Science Swag

I've been a member of The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) for maybe half a dozen years. It's the primary professional organization for those in the field of neurology and its website states it's the world’s largest association of neurologists and neuroscience professionals. They conduct and report a ton of important original research and publish …

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My Year In Books: 2024

Yesterday I published a post titled My 2024 [Belated] Goodreads Reading Challenge.  It was basically half of my annual end-of-year posts on my Goodreads reading efforts for each year. It focused on my 2024 Reading Challenge (I surpassed my goal of 200 books by reading 408 last year.) but I still have to post the …

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My 2024 [Belated] Goodreads Reading Challenge 

Every year I write an end-of-year post about my annual Goodreads Reading Challenge and the report titled My Year in Books. I think I've been doing this since about 2012 or 2013. This year was the first time I didn't, even though I had participated as I have every year. And frankly it's been bugging the hell out …

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Book Review — The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster

The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster by Helen Carr My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a book of great interest for me as John of Gaunt is purportedly my 17th great grandfather with a descent going through a number of ancestors I'm intimately familiar with as …

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