Steveawiggins

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• Continuing Ed

  

  I recently took a course.  It was an adult enrichment class, offered through a local community college.  It wasn’t for credit and it had only a modest fee. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Body Doubles

  

  Learning about how Dark Shadows developed has freed me a bit, I think. The stories between the original program, the novels, and the movies were never... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Easter Weather

  

  The weather doesn’t always cooperate for holidays.  Easter is, at heart, a celebration of spring—life after death.  Around here this holiday has been accompanie... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Welcome to the Labyrinth

  

  Do anything long enough and you’ll produce a labyrinth.  I started this blog back in 2009 with the idea of perhaps continuing in the biblical studies/ancient... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Bird’s Life

  

  Among the early signs of spring are birds.  Cold and silent, winter mornings have their own form of beauty, but hearing the birds is cause for hope. Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shadows of Childhood

  

  While it may not seem to fit my current re-fascination, I’m not really a “fan”personality. My interests are far too diverse. Since I’ve been thinking about... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sexist Instructions

  

  The thing about cars is there’s so much that can go wrong.  And when it does it’s costly to fix it.  Yet, even when working from home, we need them.  We have... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Search and Research

  

  Woe to those who live to research but who have no professorship!  I have been prone to research since about high school, driven by the need to know. Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• April Says

  

  I can honestly say that it wasn’t on my bucket list to mow the lawn while it was snowing.  Friday would’ve been better—sunny and sixty—but I have a 925 and I ha... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ecclesiastical Splinters

  

  Religion is a massive, sprawling thing without a fixed definition.  Historians of religion have specializations.  Mine has been ancient religions of the... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Campus Library

  

  Perhaps it’s an odd kind of nostalgia.  Many people can’t wait to be done with school and get on with “life.” Some of us remain fixated at the learning stage an... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ghost History

  

  Books on art are often eye-opening to me. When I was young and trying to escape the working-class hell in which I grew up, I discovered high culture. This was... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Spring Holidays

  

  March and April, despite having their holidays, tend to be months of pretty solid capitalistic work.  Congress may take its April recess and universities have... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quiet Company

  

  Even as a lifelong fan of speculative fiction, some of the most effective horror is that where a reader is kept guessing. One of the acknowledged masters of thi... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Movie Moving?

  

  If you don’t know me personally, you may not realize how frequently I quote movies.  On a daily basis, films I’ve seen—particularly multiple times—are the sourc... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shadowy House

  

  The more you learn the more you realize just how little you know. The House of Dark Shadows was like a key, a missing puzzle piece for me. Dark Shadows has... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Looking North

  

  As organized religion continues its slow decline, mythology remains. Indeed, it seems to be growing in interest. The problem with many mythologies, for... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tax Season

  

  And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from the Internal Revenue Service that all the world should be taxed.  (And this taxing was firs... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 1 April

  

  Image credit: Trocche100, public domain via Wikimedia CommonsThe funny thing is nobody knows how it got started.  In living memory, and indeed back a century... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eclectic Electric

  

  It all began with the internet going out.  Less than a month ago the modem was replaced, but the tech this time thought it could be the co-ax cable. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY