Steveawiggins

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• Philanthropy

  

  I’m sure it’s happened to you.  You’ve driven two or three places, often in different towns, then you simply give up, go home, and order it on Amazon. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Addenda

  

  In retrospect, I suppose I wrote Holy Horror a bit prematurely. Back when I started writing it, I had thought that the Bible in horror wasn’t as common as I’ve... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Search Your Engines

  

  It’s been fascinating to watch.  We tend to think things appear instantaneously on the internet, and sometimes they do.  Book announcements, however, are less... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Living Through Writing

  

  I’ve perhaps lived too long to be a great writer.  Of course, most of my fiction remains unpublished, much of it read and rejected by editors younger than... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Becoming American

  

  Image credit: John Wesley Jarvis, via Wikimedia Commons I love reading literary scholars if they write accessibly. William L. Hedges did, mostly, in Washington... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Another Exorcist

  

  I learned from the wonderful Theofantastique that Russell Crowe’s new movie is The Pope’s Exorcist. (I guess Crowe hadn’t read Nightmares with the Bible to thin... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Actual Intelligence (AI)

  

  “Creepy” is the word often used, even by the New York Times, regarding conversations with AI. Artificial Intelligence gets much of its data from the internet an... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Glen Da

  

  My current fascination with Ed Wood is, strangely, related to waking up too early. I’ve tried for years to calibrate my schedule to more like a normal one—I’ve... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Original

  

  A dozen years ago, I had a novel under contract.  I write my fiction under a pseudonym, of course.  I was thrilled because I had never seen the conceit (in the... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Book Writing

  

  Not everyone wants to write a book.  A great number of people, however, do possess that desire.  Or that desire possesses them—that’s often more accurate.  For... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Self Finding

  

  I had occasion to peruse the Dictionary of American Family Names recently. I realize that other people’s genealogy is generally boring, so I won’t provide the... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Feeling Chilly?

  

  David Cronenberg perhaps defies the tame image we tend to have of Canadians. I know that’s a parochial thing to say, perhaps reflecting my lifelong admiration o... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hard to Say

  

  There’s no easy way to say this, so I probably shouldn’t try at all.  Still, I feel compelled to.  You see, I’ve sat on admissions committees and I’ve written m... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Balance

  

  Psych!  Yesterday was actually the vernal equinox.  And speaking of psychs, it was about the coldest morning jog I’ve had all winter.  (The equinox itself didn’... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Moments of Happiness

  

  “When happiness shows up, give it a comfortable seat,” Fezziwig says.  I wonder just how much like old Ebenezer Scrooge I am—apart from the abundant money, of... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sleepy Once More

  

  I think this is the last of my recent nostalgia reads for a while. When trying to recapture the feeling of watching that first season of Sleepy Hollow without... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Wicker Man Comes

  

  Not that I would know bodily, but it seems like a book being published is something like giving birth.  It takes several months (perhaps years, in the case of... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Old Library Books

  

  There’s a quiet joy to it.  Even if they have other people’s markings in them, books I obtain ex libris are among my personal treasures. They bring back memorie... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Human Capital, Are You?

  

  Human capital.  Is there any more demeaning phrase?  Those in positions of political authority like to use the term.  To grow the economy, to people the... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Handle with Care

  

  It reminds me of that old Traveling Wilburys’ song, “Handle with Care.”  Hate is a strange and dangerous motivator.  It’s something that makes me consider demon... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY