This is an excerpt from my recent book, Lessons From The Good Books, What a Reading Addiction Taught Me About America, Music & Sports ©2016. The “Lessons” are set off in bold type.
Bismarck, North Dakota, is the bulls-eye of America, equidistant from the Pacific and the Atlantic, and from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. Me and my oldest son had the occasion not too long ago to pretty much drive through the whole of America, east to west. Along the way, we solved a lot of the country’s problems.