Illustration by Par Holman. Copyright © 2017 Par Holman I read that a few days ago some evangelical types did a laying-on-of-hands for ...

Lyman Frank Baum created a whole world in his Oz series for children. Published originally in 1900, the original Oz book has gone through co...

Haunted house stories in fiction can be very entertaining, even if you don’t believe in ghosts and wandering spirits or demons. I don’t kn...

I watched The Revenant  again recently. This time I felt the need to look up what is known of the mountain man, Hugh Glass, an attack by a g...

Copyright   ©  2017 Par Holman Since the election of Donald Trump this past November this blog has been mostly about my outrage. I ha...

After all the recent talk and accusations about fake news, I was reminded of an incident years ago, seeing the result of fake news in person...

This cartoon by Liam Francis Walsh, which appeared in the February 22, 2016 issue of The New Yorker , is both brilliant and funny. Who doesn...

The New Yorker for February 27, 2017, has an article, “That's what you think” by Elizabeth Kolbert. It is why humans think the way we ...

(You all know how to click on a picture to make it bigger.) Years ago, watching the PBS series, The Last Place on Earth , the story of...

I am writing this just one month since Donald Trump took the oath of office. With the constant uproar coming from Washington it has seemed...

January 19, 2017 I know my story sounds crazy, but I need to get it down before I forget everything. This document will be my only r...

Today is another anniversary for me. I have kept it in memory for 40 years. Because my wife was pregnant I quit smoking cigarettes on Januar...

On a day in 1956, while Mom did her grocery shopping, I passed the time waiting for her by looking at the paperback book rack. I found The M...