Steveawiggins

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• 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

• Not Sleepy Yet

  

  Over a recent weekend I watched four versions of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” (I have two excuses. One is that it’s October, and the second is that I have an... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Keep Cool

  

  I know national secrets. You can too! Bob Woodward’s Rage contains them because Trump is willing to talk about anything that aggrandizes himself. Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dangers of Experience

  

  I’m so used to being behind everyone else that when I turn out to be ahead of the curve it occasions genuine surprise. That’s the way it appears when I think... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• What Smells

  

  One of the stories I recently read had a character commenting on the smell of a place. Although humans can’t rival many other mammals and some birds for sense o... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ghosts, of a Sort

  

  What happens when we die? That question is perhaps THE question that drives just about everything we do. Evangelicalism, masked behind love of Jesus, is really... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Hardest Part of Nightmares

  

  In the process of writing a book, there comes the long time between when everything’s submitted and you hear nothing. In fact, writing a book is often about... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Unintentional Patterns

  

  Time, they say, is what prevents everything from happening at once. I’ve noticed something about my reading life (is there any other kind of life?). One of my... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY