Arizona SB 1062 a.k.a. “The Anti-Gay Bill”

Preface:  I am not against same-sex marriage.  I wrote a post – that you can read here – in which I support it.  However, I am/was in favor of SB 1062.  Lemme explain. _______________ Let’s say there’s a nice, elderly gentleman named Stanley.  After many years working in New York City’s garment district, he retired…

Faith (short story)

     Faith If it had been only the first or second time Burt had rung for the nurse, he wouldn’t have been as upset.  Five unanswered rings was too much.  He had tried every angle of his tongue, the corners of a sugar packet, and a chewed-off fingernail, yet nothing dislodged the shred of…

The First Phone Call from Heaven – book review

Just as UFO’s seem to only show themselves in rural areas instead of those with a more dense, and perhaps more intellectual population, so goes The First Phone Call from Heaven, when phones begin to ring in Coldwater, Michigan, population not a whole lot.  On one particular Friday, a day of the week considered rather…

Stay out of – “The Shack”

(re-posted from about a year ago – because you never read it. Item G of a 5-part series Of course you can’t judge a book by its cover, but it’s okay to pick one because of it. When I saw the cover for The Shack, by William P. Young, I thought three things. First, I said,…

Ebertfest 2012 – Higher Ground

“Faith must be the hardest thing to have faith in” – a brilliant statement for which I don’t wish to reveal who is responsible. According to a survey of three, equal to about 0.1875% of the audience, the most well-received film of this year’s Ebertfest was Higher Ground, an introspective part-time comedy about one woman’s…