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• Weathering Frights

  

  It reminded me of a nightmare. The box, containing a book, was soaked through. A sudden thunderstorm had come before we knew the box was even there on the... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ahab’s Garden

  

  One of my motivations, I have to admit, for re-reading Moby Dick this year was my wife’s gift of Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick, by Richard... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Wandering

  

  Sarah Perry seems to be a writer who refuses to be pinned down. Some of us are careful in our fiction to make sure things progress logically, almost factually.... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• George Floyd

  

  Perhaps for the first time in four years, 45 is beginning to see people are unhappy. Very unhappy. The pontiff—excuse me—president wanted a photo-op with the... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Wondering About Fall

  

  I’m not a professor, but I play one on—no, wait—wrong commercial. I’m not a professor, but I used to be. Now as the spring semester, which ended remotely, is... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eternal Returns

  

  Nightmares with the Bible has been submitted. Those of you who read this blog regularly know that it is my fourth book and that it is a kind of sequel to Holy... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mail In

  

  As the Republican war on democracy continues, I’m wondering about mail-in ballots. The good news is that I live in a state where such a thing is possible—there... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Serenity

  

  A few weeks back I posted about a dove that had built a nest on an unused planter on our front porch. I’d read that mourning doves choosing your house was a sig... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Too Close?

  

  What with the US Navy admitting that UFOs are real and all, it seemed like a good idea to watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind over the holiday weekend. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Somebody Elsism

  

  It’s 5:30 a.m. the day after Memorial Day and I’m out jogging. I go out at this time because there’s not much likelihood of encountering many other people. Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Remembering Cautiously

  

  Memorial Day has a special poignancy when thousands of people are needlessly dying from a disease. As the unofficial kick-off to summer, the holiday also marks... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Nothing To Eat

  

  Some stories are unsettling to the point of spirituality. That’s my impression of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian. My wife wanted my opinion of it and when she used... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ancient Technology

  

  The pandemic, like any news event these days, has generated a whole new vocabulary. I had to look up PPE on Google (Personal Protective Equipment, if you live i... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• WHO Knew 2?

  

  According to Mark Twain’s taxonomy there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Right now about all we have are in the last of these categories under the most... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cold Psalms

  

  “Ne’er cast a cloot ’til May be oot,” as we heard it in Scotland, was a warning, loosely translated, to “never take off a layer until May is over.” That bit of... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Qohelet’s Washcloset

  

  Cast your bread upon the water, as Ecclesiastes says, and it will come back to you when you need it. Since bread is a common slang word for money, and since... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Still Evolving

  

  Evolution, the 2001 movie, I mean, is good escapism. Thinking back on 2001, instead of a space oddessy, another piece of news—another national crisis, in fact,... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Straining Andromeda

  

  As corona-life settles into just the way things are, I pulled out my copy of Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain. I read this in high school, and, judging... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Old Inspiration

  

  Moving is a process that really has no end. I suppose if working folks took a few weeks of staycation and really concentrated, getting everything unpacked... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• I Saw Three Letters

  

  For some reason I seem to have less time during lockdown than I had during whatever the opposite of lockdown may be. Still, papers pile up and I have to sort an... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY