Words are wonderful things. Gods are, too. I’ve always fancied a Grecian sort of formula, where a cantankerous bunch of gods vie with each other for followers and power, up to their necks in petty grievances and revenges and seductions and machinations and magnanimous acts of blessing. I can...
What were they thinking?
Headless Goats & Wrong-Headed Women
Evan Davidson of Inglewood, California, gazed upon what was supposed to be his beloved wife at rest in her lovely expensive casket and told the mortuary that they had the wrong woman; it wasn’t her head, even given being dead. The news article didn’t mention whether or not he...
Knowing My Place
Hell is not being consigned to flames of woe. Hell is being assigned to work beside a refrigerator – a noisy, full-sized, gleaming white one. You might wonder what business a refrigerator has in the center of a large open office environment, a presumably professional and public sort of...
Healthy Normal American Boy
That’s what we sang back in 1976, when my small-town high school tackled a production of Bye Bye Birdie. High school was not a shining social series of glory days for me. I was always the last person chosen for teams in gym – at least, the last person...
Sincere Eternity
No, I am not going all new-age metaphysical on you — I’m far too grounded in Yankee practicality to float off into the calming comforts of other dimensions. I can’t even indulge in a nice juicy private fantasy without spoiling it with questions of logistics and petty details and...