Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4649 )

• A Writer’s Life

  

  Sometimes, an experienced editor once told me, the author’s life is just as important as the book she’s written. I can’t pretend to know much about Shirley... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• By the Time I Get to Phoenix

  

  I remember when flying involved going to a travel agent, explaining where and when you wanted to go, and how much you could afford. Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Gsp

  

  According to New Jersey Transit, rates for services will go up by 9 percent in October. I may still be on this bus by then. It was like many evening... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Martian Ethics

  

  If you need a boot of optimism, look to Mars. Or, more specifically, read Andy Weir’s The Martian. Not that it’s the greatest literature ever produced, but it i... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sickness Unto Death

  

  It’s like Nightmare on Elm Street, as my daughter suggested: if my laptop falls asleep, it dies. Actually, that only happens if it turns off. Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• For the Birds

  

  Identifying birds has never been my strongest skill, although I spend hours pouring over animal indentification books.  Ever since I was a child, I’ve wanted... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Call It Civilization

  

  Being in nature inspires a Psalm-like awe. Civilized to the point of spending virtually all my time indoors, spending all day in the lake or among the trees,... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Growing Green

  

  It was bound to happen sooner or later. I married into a family of singers, and when we gather at a cabin in the woods, singing breaks out. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Reign of Rain

  

  I’m on vacation for a week. My job is such that taking vacation is becoming a rare commodity, what with precious few allotted days and move-in, move-out... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• When You’re Alone

  

  The story is told of how evangelist George Whitefield, on one of his several Atlantic crossings, traded some commodity for a deck of playing cards that he... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ancient Tech

  

  I feel like scraping Roman numerals on the wall of my cave with a sharp rock. One for each day I have to spend without my laptop. I’ve been working on this blog... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Death, Technically

  

  Those of you who punish yourselves by reading my posts regularly may wonder at how different my last couple of posts have been. Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Musical Magic

  

  In-flight magazines aren’t a place I turn for inspiration. Having been raised in poverty, I’ve never found the jet-set interests to be at all engaging. I can’t... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Skewed Perspective

  

  Mysterium tremendum is the term often applied to numinous experiences. The sense of being in the presence of something both terrifying and compelling. Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Monster Impulse

  

  Some people are impulse buyers. In fact, retailers count on it. All those last-minute items next to the cash register while you wait your turn to consume—they... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Preacher’s Best Friend

  

  Perhaps it’s because I was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania, or perhaps it’s because everything I’ve ever read about him suggests he was delightfully unorthodox,... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Social Media and Persia

  

  A story appeared on the BBC recently about “sin free Facebook.” The website, which started in Brazil, is based on the idea that users don’t like having swear... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• All Relative

  

  Among the most compelling questions raised by consciousness is “where am I from?” Humans are a species of widely traveled individuals and despite the fiction... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• One Flew Over Cthulhu’s Nest

  

  Pluto is a metaphor for the ultimate of outer limits. Just one of many largish objects in the Kuiper Belt, Pluto for a while held the status of the final... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• God’s Wormhole

  

  Can God and science mix? I suppose that the third season of Through the Wormhole would be the place to look. The entire season has a distinctly metaphysical fee... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY