Monthly Archives: July 2015

Someone’s Been Stealing My Ambien

Posted on July 22, 2015 by nathanalbright

At the outset, I would like to say that I do not take Ambien, or any other sleeping pills. My own efforts at finding herbal sleep aid have generally not gone well, for either they were totally ineffective against my … Continue reading →

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Minimum Necessary Context

Posted on July 21, 2015 by nathanalbright

Yesterday, after returning from the picnic in St. Helens, I chatted at some length with a few people about the issue of writing a memoir or a sympathetic biography, with the humorous jokes about how people would be characterized depending … Continue reading →

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Book Review: How To Stay Christian In College

Posted on July 21, 2015 by nathanalbright

How To Stay Christian In College, by J. Budziszewski This book, even if it has a somewhat dated and pixelated cover photo, manages to be a useful and practical guide to young readers on how to remain strong in Christianity … Continue reading →

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Which One Of These Is Not Like The Others?

Posted on July 20, 2015 by nathanalbright

During the second of two rounds of a game I played at the picnic this afternoon at the farm of one of the brethren I consider a friendly acquaintance, an elegant and sharp widow who happens to own forty acres … Continue reading →

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Someday You Will Be Loved

Posted on July 20, 2015 by nathanalbright

Last night, just before I headed off to bed, I was talking with my mother and one of the other guests at this house about the painful subject of abortion. The other guest in the conversation showed me the painful … Continue reading →

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To Love What God Loves, And To Hate What God Hates

Posted on July 19, 2015 by nathanalbright

Yesterday at services, one of our deacons gave a message based on Proverbs 6:12-19 [1] that discussed, in great detail, what God hates. This came on the heels of a message by one of our congregation’s elders on the different … Continue reading →

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When Rooster Comes A Courtin’

Posted on July 19, 2015 by nathanalbright

[Note: This is a story, a fable of sorts, told from the point of view of the lone rooster at my host’s house, who had a bad experience going over to the neighbor’s house to court their hens. This is … Continue reading →

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Dinner Club Time Machine

Posted on July 18, 2015 by nathanalbright

Although all of my own group’s dinner club meetings are complete for the year [1], I happen to have been a guest at a time when my host was the host of their third dinner club meeting (of four). As … Continue reading →

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My Blue Ocean

Posted on July 18, 2015 by nathanalbright

Sometimes games can be very serious business, in that the strategies we think of in terms of playing games are often of a much more serious relevance. For example, a couple of days ago, after discussing a game strategy of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Civil War Battlefields Then And Now

Posted on July 18, 2015 by nathanalbright

Civil War Battlefields Then And Now, by James Campi, Jr. This particular book was part of my mother’s birthday present to me, as books are in general a popular and easy to obtain gift. In terms of its contents and … Continue reading →

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