“Despite thousands of years of theological study from every different form of religion, the duality of nature, light and dark, remains unfathomable.” *** Everyone loves a good ghost story, particularly if the story bears evidence of a genuine haunting.  Born on Halloween and gravitating from earliest memory to “things that go bump in the night”, […]

Editorial Note:  The aliens depicted in the story are fictional and any resemblance  to any alien lifeforms – past, present, or future – is purely coincidental. Scwk rolled his third eye stalk around in his cranium and croaked, “I don’t know about this, Bzls; I think we ought to give this planet a pass.”  Of […]

A number of years ago, I had a boyfriend who, for the sake of this article, we’ll call Evan.  Evan and I were engaged, and although we never made it to the altar, we were very close.   Many years after we’d broken up, to this very day, in fact, our parents are still friends.  Evan […]

Have the traditional horoscope signs gone the way of hula hoops and bellbottom jeans?  They have, if you believe the calculations of our current crop of astronomers.   These men and women of science have now determined that the shift in the Earth’s axis, occurring over the three millennia since the Zodiac was first established, has […]

Perhaps nothing tells more about a culture than its art.  From paintings on cave walls carved by prehistoric tribes, representational art has evolved to chronicle historical events, fashion, religious and social mores, and political views.  When written language emerged, artists signed their work with pride.  They signed their paintings and chiseled their names onto sculptures […]

It seems only yesterday that Barack Obama was sworn in as our 44th President.  Yet, the mid-term elections are upon us and, as we go to the polls to determine the composition of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate as well as members of state and local governing bodies, we are also asked to […]

I have often had the desire to travel back in time, to observe events or meet people about whom I have only read.  Always a “doubting Thomas” by nature, I would love the opportunity to travel back and witness Biblical events like Moses’ encounter with the burning bush, the parting of the Red Sea, God’s […]

Throughout my twelve years of Catholic school, I’d been taught to avoid fortunetellers like the plague, for some were thought to do the work of the devil.  But, like the length of my uniform skirts and the friends with whom I hung out, I didn’t give much credence to what the nuns had preached.  From […]

Born into the Roman Catholic faith, I was taught by the nuns that angels exist.  In the thick of The Cold War, when my classmates and I were drilled to drive beneath our desks in case of an air raid (as if that would help), the Catholic Church may have believed it was assuaging the […]

In 1947, reports out of New Mexico of a crashed alien spacecraft awakened the American public to the possibility of extraterrestrial visitation of Earth. The craze spawned hundreds of sightings throughout the U.S., some excellent and many not very good movies, scrutiny by the military, scientific inquiry, and popular speculation. In the intervening decades, the […]