Steveawiggins

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• Self Reflection

  

  The desire, for some people, is very strong. The need to record one’s life in words can be undertaken for any number of very human reasons. Perhaps we want our... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dryad?

  

  There are so many movies out there. The prudent horror fan knows not to be nickeled and dimed to death by renting/buying everything available, so you stick... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Tomorrow

  

  Two of the sweetest words I know are, in the context of a vacation, “not tomorrow.”  They’re especially sweet after you’ve had a couple days off and you start... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ushering In the New

  

  I’m not at all certain I’ll finish it, but at my daughter’s suggestion I watched the first episode of Netflix’s new series, The Fall of the House of Usher.... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Boxing

  

  Christmas is too large for just one day.  I know that, of course, not everyone can take a string of days off work.  I realize there are people who work Christma... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Christmas Silence

  

  Christmas seems to have come too fast and not fast enough this year.  Like Halloween, it’s one of those long anticipation holidays.  The older I get, the more... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Morning Reflections

  

  Morning thoughts are different from evening thoughts.  As we spin recklessly through the blackness of space on this globe, we really have no idea how... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bears Repeating

  

  I read Robert C. Wilson’s Crooked Tree before I began this blog, I guess. I remembered it being better than it seemed this time around, but it works as a... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Movie Ancestors

  

  I’ve read quite a few Very Short Introductions, but this one struck me as particularly good. Donna Kornhaber knows how to write for non-specialists, and she... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Running out of Time

  

  How can you let a solstice slip past without noticing it?  Admittedly, it’s sometimes easy to do in summer, but for the winter solstice it’s more serious. ... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Which Love

  

  Perhaps some content creators use genre as a guide when writing, or when filming a movie. Some categories are pretty well defined—the western, the romance, or i... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Modern Gnostics

  

  It’s not exactly a standard church.  At least I don’t think it is, but I’m just learning.  (That’s my life’s motto—I’m just learning.)  A convoluted path brough... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sights of Silence

  

  To an historian who cut his teeth on deep antiquity (if circumstances were different I would’ve ended up a Sumerologist), my current fascination with film... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Could Have Understood Differently

  

  A lesson many authors need to learn (and I include myself here) is that titles matter. Cutesy, clever titles may work for well-known writers, but something... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Author! Author!

  

  It happened in Salem.  In 1861.  The classic American card game, Authors, was published. G. M. Whipple and A. A. Smith devised the game, which has remained... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Beyond Reason

  

  Emotions are tricky.  They’re an essential part of being human, but they don’t function rationally.  At least they don’t do so reliably.  And nobody is... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• What Poe Saw

  

  It must be quite a draw, making a film based on Edgar Allan Poe. The psychology of his tales of terror is compelling and modern filmmaking offers endless... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Call Me AI

  

  Let’s call them Large Language Models instead of gracing them with the exalted title “artificial intelligence.”  Apparently, they have great potential.  They ca... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Black Bird

  

  Although we prefer typecasting—it’s so much easier!—Edgar Allan Poe had both depth and width as a writer. He penned funny as well as scary, love poems and... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Intimate Thoughts

  

  Although I haven’t had much time to devote to my fiction writing—I’m finishing yet another nonfiction title—I do have a Twitter account for my pseudonym. Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY