Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


If he wears a shirt, why doesn’t he need pants?

Make Your Bed with Skipper the Seal by William H. McRaven

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Make Your Bed with Skipper the Seal are the 10 steps/points that the author William H. McRaven learned while they were a human Navy Seal.  They have spoken about them at commencements and in several books for adults. This time, with Howard McWilliam creating the cartoon illustrations, they created a picture book that talks how a seal named Skipper becomes not only the best Navy Seal, but the best Seal he could be. The idea is that the little things are important such as how […]

Let’s all make our beds!

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This short little book — which I listened to, read by the author — is an expansion of William H. McRaven’s commencement speech to the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. Apparently the speech, which covers 10 important life lessons that McRaven learned in the military, went viral. So he wrote a book explaining each in more detail. “The common people and the great men and women are all defined by how they deal with life’s unfairness: Helen Keller, Nelson Mandela, […]



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