How Boring is Weather?
The Weather Channel adds content like ROCKY MOUNTAIN WRECKERS to attract viewers. After all, who’s excited about the weather unless the prediction is for flooding or a blizzard or tornadoes? … Continue reading
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The Elusive “Animating Principle”
For all the years that human beings have identified themselves as being…beyond plants and animals, people have wondered what makes a person’s face and eyes look empty after death. No … Continue reading
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Avoiding Rebirth?
The 2000 film CHOCOLATE starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp features a final Easter sermon by the fresh-faced Pere Henri. After many trials and conflicts born of a traditional standard … Continue reading
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Life Reviews: What if They’re Real?
When I was doing research on near-death experiences for my most recent novel (RETURN TICKET), many self-reporting experiencers described undergoing a supervised life review when they arrived on the Other … Continue reading
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What’s Happening to the “Wonderful World?”
By order of the new government, our children will learn much less than we ever knew. What they’re allowed to know will be designed to enforce obedience to the powerful … Continue reading
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A Kick in the Common Sense
As a writer, I tend to live in my head, hearing conversations that will never happen. The situation doesn’t make me more observant, only more vulnerable. Growing more…ahem…mature, I’m gradually … Continue reading
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When Love Rises
When I was a child, I puzzled over romantic films in which love was fast and simplistic—a sexy kiss, a lonely yearning, a desire to identify with someone magnificent—something that … Continue reading
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Real-Life Helpers
It’s the black of night during a new moon—not in the city where there’s no longer any pure darkness, but in the country away from streetlights. Or maybe it’s a … Continue reading
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A Mandate for Kindness
Many scoff when you say we need global community—meaning to recognize that all people not only matter but are connected. Certain so-called religious leaders teach a gospel of division and … Continue reading
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A Love Letter to TV
What TV programs do you remember best from your childhood? I never forgot a crime drama (M-SQUAD) that featured a murderer chasing a little girl in a school. I loved … Continue reading
