Steveawiggins

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• 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

• Trolls and Tolls

  

  Fall creeps up on me every year. I like to have an array of seasonal books to read so that when it arrives I’ll be ready. With house repair costs this year... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dayglow

  

  Yellow and orange leaves on a damp pavement. A sky claustrophobically occluded with gray clouds. A decided chill in the air. All you have to do is add a few... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Im Peaches and Whatnot

  

  Like most thinking people I’m wondering what’s wrong with our government. If such wrong-doing were so out in the open any of the rest of us would be in jail, bu... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Digital First

  

  Publishers these days are all yammering about being “digital first.” Now, I use technology when I write these days, despite the fact that I am coerced to shut... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Spiritual Fear

  

  There’s an old adage that if a headline asks a question the implied answer is “No.” I’ve found that to be true, largely. I hoped differently when I saw the... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Haunted State

  

  Some few years back, when FYE was still a thing, I’d hunt for bargains at our local. I came across a two-for-one DVD that seemed promising, but when I got it... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Anthropocene

  

  The word “Anthropocene” has been showing up quite a bit lately. For a period of many years I was an avid, self-taught amateur geologist. In my dreams I still am... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• This Is a Test

  

  For the next sixty seconds…  (If you were born after Civil Defense aired these commercials, it’s your loss.)  I’ve been reading about animal intelligence—there... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Weird Publishing

  

  It’s a weird world. Publishing, I mean. In the early days of shock and angst after Nashotah House, when it had become clear that UWOsh—the University of... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Trailing Art

  

  One of the many trails that wend their way through Ithaca is the Art Trail. (The town finds waypoints on the wine and beer trails of the southern tier as well,... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY