Steveawiggins

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• Personal Psalms

  

  I haven’t heard it yet, but a New York Times article encourages me to. Paul Simon has joined the ranks of those aging music stars to record albums presaging... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mom

  

  I just became an orphan.  I tend not to write about other people without their permission, but I have a few words to say about Doris Ruth Miller.  First of... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Loco Locusts

  

  It really used to bother me.  Other kids in kindergarten or first grade called them “crabs.”  The picture, however, clearly showed a lobster.  Quiet and... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Creeping Again

  

  The morality of Creepshow 2 is pretty straightforward. Of course, this is early Stephen King. Sometimes it’s good to keep things simple. Horror anthologies... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Calculating Christians

  

  I know some calculating Christians.  I use “Christian” as religion scholars do—it is the way people identify themselves, not necessarily what they are. Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Simple Arithmetic?

  

  Arithmetic progressions.  They can boggle the mind.  I think I’ve noted before—I’ve been doing this so long that it’s difficult to be sure—that the exponential... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Of Wolves and Humans

  

  Time has a funny way of distorting perceptions. I remember when The Wolfman (2010; please, I’m not old enough to have seen the classic initial release in 1941)... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Starting October

  

  October’s a difficult month to quantify. When it rolls around I get in the mood for certain books and movies, but I like to see and read new things. Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Down to the Sea in Ships

  

  On the final day of our Charleston odyssey we toured the USS Yorktown, an aircraft carrier dry-docked at Point Pleasant.  One of my uncles served on the Yorktow... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Swamp Things

  

  If I have time, before I go on a trip I like to consider what different flora and fauna I might see.  People from southern states traveling north to Pennsylvani... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Poe’s Charleston

  

  The first thing that came to mind, apart from family, when I learned we were coming to Charleston, is Edgar Allan Poe.  I learned about Poe from my brother at... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Valuable Time

  

  Those who know me are sometimes surprised to learn that I’m half southern, genetically, at least.  My father was a South Carolinian and so I find myself in... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Squidish

  

  I was attracted to the Lovecraftian aspect of the title. Of Tentacles, I mean. I wasn’t away that Into the Dark was a Hulu series of television shows based on... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Reflecting Spirituality

  

  I always find undergoing anesthesia a spiritual experience.  It’s too bad the the prep for things like colonoscopies is so stressful that it’s difficult to... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Beautiful Vampire

  

  It’s been a quest years in the making. I first found the Dark Shadows novels by Marilyn Ross at the Goodwill Store in Seneca, Pennsylvania. Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Gods and Crafts

  

  Those of us who write fiction, I suppose, often ponder what it would be like having a kind of writing named after us. Knowing that’s not likely to happen we... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Waiting for the Sun

  

  Waiting.  It’s difficult in the best of circumstances.  It’s even harder when dealing with multiple sources of delay.  For example: it has been unseasonably coo... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Banned Monk

  

  One of the strange things about gothic fiction is that, although often set on the continent, the early practitioners—inventors, if you will—were English. Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dental Dawn

  

  Someone knowing my interest in religion and horror recommended Teeth. A comedy horror film based on the concept of vagina dentata—an idea I first encountered... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ravens and Autumn

  

  In need of some diversion, and seeking some way to celebrate the equinox, we made our way to Mount Gretna.  With a population of less than 300 souls, Mount... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY