Steveawiggins

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• Finding Family

  

  Sea Change is a probing story of learning to live with loss. Of learning how to say goodbye. I’m sure that I didn’t catch all that was being offered in this... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Planting Knowledge

  

  In an effort not to harm other living creatures, I became a vegan about seven years ago.  Generally it’s not too difficult, although many eateries still think... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• How to Write a Book

  

  When I worked at Routledge I was told never to mention William Germano’s name. I’ve never been one to dabble in workplace politics, but I did wonder why. Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Monsters of Mystery

  

  Sunn Classic Pictures was responsible for much of my young movie viewing. Or at least a reasonable portion of it. As I predicted, I ended up watching The... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Golem Events

  

  Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsIt doesn’t have a title yet.  At least not one that’s announced.  Still, when a friend pointed out this article that Daniel... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Boggy Down

  

  Okay, so after watching The Creature of Black Lake I realized that I’d never seen The Legend of Boggy Creek. I did watch The Mysterious Monsters, a documentary... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Day of Earth

  

  One of the questions thoughtful and mission-based publishers ask is why books on environmentalism don’t sell.  Since it’s Earth Day (by the way, Happy Earth... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Black Lagoon, Er, Lake

  

  There’s value in watching bad movies. For one thing, it’s a learning opportunity. (For another, they’re more likely to be found for free on streaming services. Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Funny About Irving

  

  The successful writer, John Green, has been on a tuberculosis kick lately. You see, writers swing that way. As the writer of books few people read, I’ve had my... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pondering Origins

  

  I’m not a numbers guy.  I never had any interest in statistics, and I tremble when I see my accountant’s number pop up on my phone at tax time.  But... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Human Humanities

  

  The New Yorker, if it didn’t take so much time to read, would be on my magazine list. I’m primarily a book man, and there’s so little time these days that... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Female Future

  

  One thing we repeatedly heard during the early days of the pandemic is that people couldn’t wait for things to get back to business as usual (BAU, in corporate... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• What Kind of Night?

  

  “It was a dark and stormy night.”  If you’re like me, this evokes images of Snoopy sitting atop his doghouse, clacking away at his typewriter, trying to write... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Finally, Therapy

  

  Like religion and horror, humor and horror can also get along well. As an aesthetic, it’s not for everyone, but Grady Hendrix does it well. It took some... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eternal Return

  

  Amazon gets a lot of bad press.  For me, anyone that sends me books gets a warm fuzzy association.  Besides, returns are a snap.  Amazon has sent me the wrong... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• New York History

  

  Regular readers know I’ve been on a Washington Irving kick. My wife kindly agreed to read his History of New York to me as I was doing the dishes (we’ve read... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Disputing Tradition

  

  I respect tradition.  Normally.  Once in a while tradition should be disputed.  The other day I was reminded of the seventeenth-century aphorism, “The early bir... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dinosaur Planet

  

  Time, as the crew of the Odyssey finds out, can cast things in a different light. Admittedly I watched Planet of the Dinosaurs because it was free on Amazon... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Literary Detective

  

  A writer’s life can take many forms. Alexandre Dumas, for example, (the father, just to be clear) had tremendous success with his novels The Three Musketeers an... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Miracles

  

  “Expect a miracle,” Oral Roberts used to say, “and a miracle is yours today.”  The famed Evangelical probably didn’t have Catholic-variety miracles in mind,... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY