Author Archives: bryan

I make a thick bean soup and I make red beans and rice. Typically, I use a canned creamed red bean from the south to attain the desired consistency for my red beans and rice, but I have previously experimented … Continue reading →

Salvation or, (if you prefer), meaning / purpose through the Ages has undergone multiple facelifts. From: The Catholic Church – Salvation through religious observance and good works, to The Protestant Reformation – Salvation through Grace alone, to Calvinism – Strenuous … Continue reading →

Political discussion in recent years has retreated from a substantial, meaningful debate on civic and moral virtue to an entrenched academic exercise calculating market values. Going as far back as Confucius and Plato and as recently as Thomas Jefferson and … Continue reading →

This is installment #3 of a sci-fi serial. Installment #1 was posted 1/23/21; appropriately a numerically-ordered palindrome. Follow the links forward from the last sentence and backward from the first sentence of each post. Of course we have the ships … Continue reading →

This is installment #2 of a sci-fi serial. Installment #1 was posted 1/23/21; appropriately a numerically-ordered palindrome. Follow the links forward from the last sentence and backward from the first sentence of each post. It has been just over four … Continue reading →