No, not "Susie." SUUSI--Southeast Unitarian Universalist Summer Institute. It's the one special week each July when UUs (Unitarian Universalists) from far and near converge upon the lovely Radford University campus in Virginia for seven days of learning and hiking, singing and dancing and general … [Read more...]
“Scenario”: The Aliens Arrive …
Full disclosure: I'm not a great fan of poetry. There are those poems, often read long ago, that have embedded themselves in my mind, whose rhythms come to me at the oddest times. They're a motley lot. Some of them, like Chesterton's "Lepanto" or Browning's "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," I … [Read more...]
“Life of Pi,” UFO Journal, and the Nature of Truth
Over the past year or so my novel Journal of a UFO Investigator has been compared to Don Quixote. It’s been compared to Catcher in the Rye, to The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Wizard of Oz. Now my friend Victoria Zula has suggested a comparison I hadn’t heard before, with Yann Martel’s award-winning … [Read more...]
Roswell and Annie Jacobsen — “They Were Children”
“I need to tell you one thing. I never saw the bodies. To get down into the vaults, you have to do more than drink a few beers with a second lieutenant. I did see some photos, though, in the archives, that they’d taken back in ’47, when they first found the wreckage [at Roswell]. And I must … [Read more...]
“Journal of a UFO Investigator” is launched!
You may have noticed that I didn't post last Tuesday. That's because I was all wrapped up in the excitement for the launch for Journal of a UFO Investigator, which was held Tuesday evening at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC. What a wonderful, wonderful party that was! With a special UFO cake, … [Read more...]
