A little reading as you start the holiday weekend! This month’s edition of my paranormal column, Across the Great Divide is now available! The Moon has played an important role in spiritual and psychological matters for as long as there’s been recorded history, but is there really any scientific...
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian details Arnold’s life on the Spokane Indian Reservation and his decision to go to an all-white high school in another town for a chance at a better education. This is the story of a boy struggling with a decision to leave...
I had reported back in a March edition of my weekly Banned Books Awareness series that Charlotte’s Web was banned in a United Kingdom school, along with Winnie the Pooh and The Three Little Pigs, because the books might offend Muslim students and their parents. The Muslim Council of...
I was trolling through random videos on YouTube, and came across an oldie but a goodie from legend Harlan Ellison. I had posted a link to this particular video some time ago, but that post was lost along with everything else when my blog was hacked recently; so when...
Anyone who grew up in the 1990’s knows the meaning behind the question “Where’s Waldo?” The answer, though, might surprise you. That’s because you won’t find him in some public or school libraries in the United States. Where’s Wally? (published in the United States and Canada as Where’s Waldo?)...
Well, I’ve been doing the banned books awareness articles every week since January 3, 2011, and the response from readers all over the world has been amazing and interesting, to say the least. I was invited by the World Education Network to begin doing the series as part of...
Here’s a Jeopardy question for you: What do The Client, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, and A Time to Kill have in common? Sure, they’re among John Grisham’s bestselling works, but each has also been removed from a library because someone objected to its content. As one might expect,...
The June, 2011 issue of Pagan Pages magazine is out and along with it another installment of my Across the Great Divide column. This month I discuss some of the mainstream scientific principles that apply to ghost hunting and paranormal research. You can read it, and all the other...
I touched on some issues involving physical characteristics with last week’s banned book, James and the Giant Peach. The conversations that resulted on several Facebook pages were still fresh in my mind when I sat down to write the next installment of my series; so when I came across...
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl tells the story of four-year-old James, who lives with his loving parents in a cottage in the south of England. James’ world is turned upside down when his parents are devoured by a rhinoceros that had escaped from the London zoo...