James Nugent

There is little practical information about how about how to go about the day to day business of being a Benedictine Oblate. This audiobook is an attempt to give practical suggestions....

The topic of this audiobook is volatile and people will often have deep emotional wounds related to these issues....

Congratulations. You have completed a graduate program, and you have decided to serve the needs of students....

Kayaking like most extreme sports is potentially fatal. The hazards are too numerous to list here. However, with proper instruction and equipment the hazards can be minimalized. This book is not meant to be any kind of instruction. It is only a general discussion....

I went to learn more about Esperanto, a language that was invented 126 years ago....

This little booklet is an attempt to illuminate the Catholic Christian way of facing pain and transform it into a useful and productive time in life....

Sailing and adventuring on Puget Sound has been a part of my life since I was at least eight years old. Nowadays, at 58 years old, and despite numerous heath issues, I still love mud mucking around Southern Puget Sound....

Writer's block has caused some people to actually quit their careers as writers....

The fog is just beginning to disperse after sunrise but this is not a problem for navigation because you are just going to follow the western shore....

I was paddling hard with the wind and waves coming across my port bow....

From time to time all of us have social conflicts. The goal is to not be controlled by the expectations of the other person and leave them at least with a little more knowledge about how to be happy....

Then the economy turned on the middle and upper middle class. Then suddenly, it wasn’t possible to always find a job that provided a suitable amount of money to maintain our chosen lifestyle....

August 2014: I set my trusty 14-foot kayak in my lagoon. It was a rising tide heading south, and I had several hours before it reversed and dumped some 13 or more feet of water....

In Catholic tradition there are numerous forms of prayer....

In January 2014 I stumbled upon an announcement that the South Sound Estuary Association was looking for volunteer beach naturalist....

I decided to write this short piece on the psychological healing aspects of the Sacrament of Confession, now called Reconciliation....

This audiobook moves on to teach about drawing the aggressor in getting them to react to you, putting the aggressor in a double bind, and helping them self-destruct....

This book is a slice of my life. In most ways my life has been rather normal, and in a few ways, it has been extraordinary. I figure I am in the last two decades of my life....

This is not a book about how to use shot guns and other weapons when intruders evade your living space....

How I became a Right Wing Fundamentalist Roman Catholic and of course a Republican. Then I became politically incorrect, and finally at peace with my church and my politics....