Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4674 )

• 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

• WordPress Extortion

  I seldom post twice in one day. WordPress’ decision to extort customers into using their “block editor” unless they pay $300 a year for a business account is... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Belief and Its Discontents

  In this day of self-driving cars and instant, world-wide video conferencing, it is difficult to believe we still prejudice belief in God. Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Scared Space

  

  It was dark. I often work in dim light since the computer screen backlights everything. I’d strained my back the day before, and getting into a standing positio... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Behind the Exorcist

  

  Some books from the 1970s are difficult to locate. Since that was some half-century ago I suppose that’s not at all unusual. One of those that I had been anxiou... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bbw

  

  It’s a measure of how busy I am when Banned Book Week has started before I realize it. Most years I make it a point to read a banned book at this time, but my... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mother of Life

  

  Homeostasis is, if I recall correctly, the state of equilibrium that entities and systems seek. When we’re too warm we seek someplace cooler and when we’re... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Up in the Sky

  

  Superman stands for truth, justice, and the American way. Or least he did when I was a kid. One out of three ain’t bad. Considering the many exposés that have... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY