How Mess up a Perfectly Good Rosh Hashanah

Its September 22, 2017, the first day of Autumn, or Spring for those south of the equator. It is also this where Rosh Hashanah falls, which is the beginning of the Jewish civil year and the first day of the seventh month in their lunar cycled calendar. For Jews, its a time of celebration, of …

Sodom and Gomorrah: A Comedy

  Kevin the deity and Abraham  stood on a hill-top looking out over the valley.  Kevin was Abraham's patron deity, having recruited him when Abraham was younger and just embarking on his life of shepherding and occasional con. Kevin offered protection and certain perks, in exchange for obedience and dedication. The relationship, seemed to work, …

Insults in Vain

In the Bible there is a passage commonly known as the Ten Commandments.  In that list of basic civil law and religious philosophy, is the least understood, and possibly the most misused one of the lot; the one about taking the Lord's name in vain. When I was growing up in the WCG, aka Worldwide …

Supplications at the Clothesline

When I lived in the North Carolina Mountains, I had a clothesline that followed me to three houses. Part of the reason for it was because it was cheaper than using a dryer, It also was because it allowed me a few minutes of kid free solitude. We were living under the poverty line then, depending …