September marks a return to regular classes here in the United States. With the cultural focus on all things scholastic, it is also the time of year when our freedom to read is celebrated by the America Library Association’s Banned Books Week, which will be September 21-27, 2014. Libraries,...
Singapore’s National Library Board has been busy as of late- stopping citizens from reading. Books and comics have been on their hit list because they contain same-sex issues in their content. The organization last week withdrew from libraries the books and Tango Makes Three, which has been covered previously,...
This is my final edition of Across the Great Divide. What started in 2009 has become a fun and familiar ride, but the time has come to step off and continue through the amusement park of life and enjoy different things. The editors of Pagan Pages magazine have been...
“The Fine Line Between Believer and Skeptic” By R. Wolf Baldassarro I have been doing a careful dance as of late on a very thin tightrope. I have been skeptical, highly critical, and utterly blatant lately in calling out bullshit when it comes to ghost hunting and paranormal research...
This Memorial Day weekend I think not only of those who gave all, but those who returned home to us in the flesh yet left so much of themselves and their sanity upon the battlefield. They are the ones whom society has ignored as they continue the battle within...
Henry Miller is one of the most important literary figures in American history, but most people don’t even know his name. His was a true underdog story: a creative and challenging author who influenced such literary and pop culture icons as Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Phillip Roth, Paul Theroux,...
It was reported here two years ago (4/30/2012) that Yertle the Turtle was banned as part of a political dispute in British Columbia. Well, the beloved works of Dr. Seuss are once again within the cross-hairs of censors in Canada- this time in Toronto, Ontario. Joining the list of...
Part of growing up in the 20th century was reading the adventures of Tarzan of the Apes, through a series of 24 books by Edgar Rice Burroughs; the novels are considered classic literature by adults, as well. Written between 1912 and 1965, Tarzan has been adapted numerous times for...
In honor of National Poetry Month I share one of my favorite pieces from my book, Under a Sunlit Sky: “Slow Music” Those who know me are aware I don’t like to dance. My hesitation to just let loose And shake it on a crowded dance floor I am...
Just when I thought that the bar of integrity in ghost hunting couldn’t get any lower someone went and removed it entirely. Built in the 1880s, the infamously haunted Winchester House has never been registered for lodging let alone licensed for alcohol, but the current owners of the 160-room...