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• Holiday Hopping

  

  Weekends in spring are like touching base.  They’re the only places you can’t be tagged out and you run from one to the next, hoping not to get caught. Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Friends and Dreams

  

  The mind is a labyrinth.  Ever since the time change (especially), I’ve been waking with the weirdest dreams.  One involved someone I haven’t really thought... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Curses

  

  Once again I’m reminded that Holy Horror was never intended to be comprehensive. I recently watched The Cursed (the 2021 one, directed by Sean Ellis). Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Importance of Sharing

  

  Growing up with siblings, I remember it well—my mother instilling the message of sharing.  If something good came my way, I could count on hearing “Share that... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rock the Absurd

  

  Okay, so it was bound to happen eventually.  You see, the internet makes us all interchangeable in a way.  I occasionally lament being confused by various... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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  Of course, most of my fiction remains unpublished, much of it read and rejected by editors younger than...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