J. Bradley Wigger. Invisible Companions: Encounters with Imaginary Friends, Gods, Ancestors, and Angels. Stanford University Press, 2019. (This review was written for the website of the Society for Psychical Research, www.spr.ac.uk, and published there on December 9.) It’s the stuff of an … [Read more...]
Kennedy Assassination – Do You Remember the 22nd of November?
If you answer yes to that question, you're in your 60s or older. It's simple arithmetic. I don't know what the generational line of demarcation is between those who will never forget that awful Friday afternoon--who remember, after 56 years, exactly where they were and what they were doing … [Read more...]
Thoughts on Pollyanna
"I should worry, not for nothin' Everybody loves me, yes they do ... I feel just about ten feet all, havin' a ball Guess ya might call me a Pollyanna." --Doris Day (1958) If I do, it's probably not a compliment. "Pollyanna-ish" has entered the English or at least the American language as a … [Read more...]
Groucho Marx, and Other Ghosts of Halloween Past
A few reminiscences of my brushes with this ancient festival of the dead, that still manages to grab our imaginations: 1957, maybe? I must have been in fifth grade, because I remember reading this in Junior Scholastic magazine, which I think we started using in elementary school that year: a … [Read more...]
“Storm Area 51” – Why It Happened as It Did
"This has a high potential of getting ugly. Please consider visiting at another time." --Website of Rachel, Nevada, quoted by Billy Cox in the De Void blog "This," of course, was "Storm Area 51," the event that was supposed to happen four weeks ago, on September 20. It didn't "get ugly," and … [Read more...]
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