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A Migraine You Don’t Deserve

I get headaches often enough and for enough reasons that, like everything else, I turn my analytical approach to it [1]. It is fortunate, for many reasons, that I do not drink alcohol, as that eliminates hangovers from my tendency … Continue reading

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On The Long Way Down

This evening I received a comment on one of the blogs of mine that has long received a lot of views, and that is my post on Psalm 88. From childhood, Psalm 88 has been a source of comfort and … Continue reading

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All Together In One Place

Yesterday night was the first dinner club meeting in this year’s cycle [1], and I managed to eat with people I knew, but only one of the couples I ate with was one I had eaten out with before. As … Continue reading

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And What Might Save Us, Me And You, Is If The Russians Love Their Children Too

In the mid 1980’s, towards the beginning of his solo career [1], Sting released a hit single called “Russians” where he sought to distance himself from the bellicose rhetoric on both sides of the Cold War, and focus instead on … Continue reading

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Book Review: Finding Favor With The King

Finding Favor With The King: Preparing For Your Moment In His Presence, by Tommy Tenney [Note: This book was sent free of charge by Bethany House Publishers in exchange for an honest review.] In many ways, this is an excellent … Continue reading

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Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates

For the past few days I have read about a squabble between Hershey’s, a well-known chocolatier with its own city in Central Pennsylvania, and Let’s Buy British Imports, a firm that has until now imported Cadbury’s chocolates for a market … Continue reading

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With Suspicious Minds

While I do not feel it necessary or enjoyable to talk about the specific issue of vaccination and the widespread suspicion about them, which at least according to several writers [1] was supported by a single unreplicated and severely deficient … Continue reading

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Book Review: Miles In Love

Miles In Love, by Lois McMaster Bujold Among all of the omnibus collections of Bujold’s Vorkosigan saga that I have read [1], I believe that this one will long be my favorite, for reasons that are personal and perhaps a … Continue reading

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Why Don’t You Say So?

In his hit single “Heartbreak Warfare,” the first single from his Battle Studies album, a song and album about which I have much more to say in the context of my personal life, if anyone would want to hear it, … Continue reading

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A Family Of Trees Wanted To Be Haunted

It is not by accident that my favorite animals are almost entirely small and non-aggressive woodland animals capable of self-defense, or that I should write somewhat often about the psychology of such small creatures [1]. It is also not by … Continue reading

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