Tag Archives: family

Worse Than Useless

Posted on May 6, 2016 by nathanalbright

I had mentioned before that three times in my life I have had some reasonably sustained therapy [1]. The first time it happened was between the ages of about five and seven, at a local psychiatric hospital in Plant City, … Continue reading →

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Fallow Years

Posted on May 5, 2016 by nathanalbright

On August 27, 2008, I wrote my epitaph [1], in Spanish, in part because I was heading to the Feast of Tabernacles that year in Chile and my mind was in a Spanish-speaking place, and in part because as a … Continue reading →

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Vater Gott

Posted on May 2, 2016 by nathanalbright

When I was writing plays prolifically between 2003 and 2005, one of the more intriguing plays I wrote about my childhood was called Vater Gott. Vater Gott, one of the few works I have written with a German title [1], … Continue reading →

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Semper Vigilante

Posted on April 30, 2016 by nathanalbright

Among the books I read that belonged to my maternal grandparents growing up was a book on one of the New England lines of our family, not one that is particularly closely related, but one which has lines going back … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Unusual Chickens For The Exceptional Poultry Farmer

Posted on April 30, 2016 by nathanalbright

Unusual Chickens For The Exceptional Poultry Farmer, by Kelly Jones, illustrations by Katie Kath If you like your epistlatory novels with cute and shy and clever twelve-year old protagonists, strong feminist themes, and receiving creepy letters from the dead, this … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Living A Mighty Faith

Posted on April 27, 2016 by nathanalbright

Living A Mighty Faith: A Simple Heart And A Powerful Faith, by Angus Buchan [Note: This book was provided free of charge by BookLook/Thomas Nelson Publisher in exchange for an honest review.] While in some ways this book is a … Continue reading →

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A Telltale Heart?

Posted on April 26, 2016 by nathanalbright

In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the unnamed narrator is placed in the unenviable and untenable position of trying to convince the reader of his own sanity while describing a murder that he committed. The story opens … Continue reading →

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Non-Book Review: Richard III: The King In The Car Park

Posted on April 24, 2016 by nathanalbright

Richard III: The King In The Car Park, by Terry Breverton Having previously reviewed the author’s groundbreaking work on the largely forgotten but vitally important Japser Tudor [1], for some months I saw this work awaiting review and I figured … Continue reading →

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Borne Back Ceaselessly Into The Past

Posted on April 23, 2016 by nathanalbright

The expression “turtles all the way down” refers to the problem of infinite regress. In English, we are used to thinking of such problems when we refer to chicken and egg problems, where the legitimacy of an unmoved mover outside … Continue reading →

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Where Were They Going Without Ever Knowing The Way?

Posted on April 23, 2016 by nathanalbright

At this year’s Passover, I was unfortunately more than a little discomfited by the aftereffects of the fatal lure of a root beer float to go along with dinner at a small drive-in near the location of Passover where I … Continue reading →

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