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• The Abbey

  

  In my efforts to satisfy the Gothic longing of October—such a melancholy month—I’ve been reading Jane Austen’s classic, Northanger Abbey. Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dreams and Nightmares

  

  Since posting just a few days back about the cover of Nightmares with the Bible it has now been posted on the Rowman Littlefield website (more on that in a... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• War of Egos

  

  As an author you have to believe in your book. Experience has taught me that if you don’t, nobody will. Still, there are ways of believing in your book while... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Keep It Covered

  

  I’ve seen it at last. The cover concept for my book. I’ve been manicly checking the Rowman and Littlefield (parent company of Lexington/Fortress Academic—a... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• October Reflections

  

  The people are dressed in their finest. The best food and drink available are spread on white tablecloths while rats scurry underfoot. The feasters invite Lucy... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Moral Imperative

  

  It was a walk up a long, steep hill, but it was worth it. Last Saturday my wife and I voted. It had the feeling of accomplishment. The long, steep hill was... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ode to Bookstores

  

  The pandemic has changed everything. You knew that, of course. Like many people in fields of regular job uncertainty, we’ve curtailed spending as much as we can. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The End of Snow Days

  

  It’s a chilling thought. An article in the New York Times said it, but we were all thinking it. Snow days may well have become another victim of Covid-19. No,... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hot Breakfast

  

  Cooking in a pre-dawn kitchen has a certain appeal as the weather cools. Knowing that something with warmth will set you right before the nighttime cold forces... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Electricity

  

  After the oven incident (see last Monday’s post), I took some time to examine the burned out bake element from the range. Clearly a break in the piece led to... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Good of Others

  

  On a recent trip to visit family in upstate New York, the Sunday we had to leave (for work Monday is an implacable law), we decided to have lunch in a local... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• No Way Out

  

  Racism is evil. The grading of the shading of humans degrades us all. Robin DiAngelo knows much about the subject and as we watch Trump rally the openly... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Back to Tarrytown

  

  The very name “Hollow” takes me there. It’s a resonant geonym. Near Franklin, Pennsylvania, my early hometown, runs a route called Deep Hollow Road. Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hypersensitivity

  

  Tell people you’re hypersensitive and the first thing they’ll say is “I’m sorry.” The way I use the term is, however, somewhat literal. Some of us experience... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Gothic Tales

  

  Each year when autumn worms its way into my consciousness, I begin looking for the ideal gothic book. I can test this by looking at the Goodreads lists of best... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tooth Less

  

  The words “difficult extraction” are not what you want to hear, seated in a dentist chair. Fortunately mine was not difficult. Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Just Joking

  

  I’m not sure when I’ll ever get back into a movie theater, given that our government plans to do nothing about Covid-19. Still, I recently watched Joker for... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fire and Ice

  

  Most people in our modern world consider a cooking device an important part of a household. Many of us are also over-committed. Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Watery

  

  Having watched What the Bleep Do We Know? a few weeks ago, I became curious about Masaru Emoto’s The Hidden Messages in Water. Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Twain Shall Meet

  

  On a slightly hazy fall day, when the autumnal colors were alive, we stopped in Elmira. To understand the significance of this stop, I should explain that from... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY