Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4110 )

• Quiet Now

  

  The funny thing about my movie watching is that it’s a reflection of my scattered lifestyle. While I was teaching my career progression was linear with a goal o... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Outdated Commandments

  

  Recently, according to an ABC story a friend sent me, some self-righteous Catholics stole indigenous statues from the Amazon from a location in Rome. Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Whose Computer?

  

  Whose computer is this? I’m the one who paid for it, but it is clearly the one in control in this relationship. You see, if the computer fails to cooperate ther... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Panic at the Bookstore

  

  Usually it works like this. I go into a used bookstore with a list of titles I’d like to find. Yes, I know I can look them up on Amazon and pay some price gouge... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Homemade Halloween

  

  Halloween is a holiday that brings together many origins. One of the more recent is the tradition of watching horror movies in October. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• After Easton

  

  I’m still recovering. The Easton Book Festival was a fine example of liminal time. Ordinary time—the day-to-day, or “workaday” variety of time—may pay the... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Clean Thoughts

  

  Brainwashing, it seems, does not exist. Many of us who remember at least bits and snatches of the Vietnam War and the subsequent fear of cults, grew up hearing... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rivers and Books

  

  “You can’t” Heraclitus said, “step into the same river twice.” The same also applies to reviewing books on Goodreads. I met my official pledge of 60 books... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Read a Book

  

  A huge shout-out to Andrew Laties for conceiving and organizing the Easton Book Festival! Easton may not be the largest city in the state, but the Lehigh... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rescued, Technically

  

  One of the scariest tropes in horror (or other) movies is where the protagonist has to rely on the monster (or antagonist) to be rescued. Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Book Festival

  

  So it’s here.  The Easton Book Festival begins today. The weather? Partly sunny, temps in the mid-60s. There’s no excuse not to go! (Well, actually, there are... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Influential Brethren

  

  Outsized ideas from under-recognized sources always captivate me. I have to admit that my own childhood fascination concerning, and fear of, “the rapture”... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Who Owns Whom?

  

  Who’s ready to sue? Now, I’m not a litigious person, but when someone (and corporations are people, according to the law) to whom I’ve been paying buckoodles... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Amityville Rehaunted

  

  One of the problems with scarce resources is the desire not to squander any of them. Time is so rare these days that I keep multiple writing projects going... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Home Phone?

  

  I wonder if anyone’s done a study on how cell phones affect our psyches. The other day my wife upgraded her phone. What with this being technology and all, the... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Thoughts on a Book Signing

  

  I’m a small-town boy. Having the opportunity to hold a book signing, even if nobody requested said signing at the event, in the oldest continuously operated... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Local Hauntings

  

  In my on-going research (as I think of it), I watched The Haunting in Connecticut. I recently wrote about A Haunting in Connecticut, distinguished from the... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Seasonal Music

  

  Music is deeply, deeply personal. That’s why I don’t write much about it. There are pieces, I swear, if someone walked in to shoot me when I was listening to... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fly Away

  

  Humans can be quite likable, but we have some nasty traits. One is that we tend to think of ourselves as the only intelligent beings on the planet. Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shortchanging Halloween

  

  In a local mall over the weekend where Christmas decorations were being uncrated, I felt cheated. Now I’m not naive enough to suppose retailers can get by... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY