The sky stretches forever in every direction and a biting wind adds to the feeling of loneliness. Meager grasses blow in the breeze like strange fingers trying to catch hold of the sun. A lone hawk calls in the distances as it sweeps and dips over the sloping grasslands of the arid Mongolian Steppe. The land may seem desolate, but for some, it is the safest sanctuary available. The Steppe
Here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac. (Nor for you, for one alone, Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring, For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death. All over bouquets of roses, O death, I cover you over with roses and early lilies, But mostly and now the lilac that blooms the
Searching for the Truth (Always Telling the Truth Means Never Having to Remember Anything) I’ve known and worked closely with Stanton Friedman for the past 23 years since I moved to Roswell and was a volunteer at the International UFO Museum from 1996 to 1998. I had heard and read about Stanton for many years prior to actually meeting him, so when I first got to meet him, I was
In May of 2018, Nicolas Maduro was re-elected for another term as Venezuela’s president and sworn into power on January 10th 2019. This second term will continue to 2025. However, foreign powers such as the European Union, United States, and the Lima Group have denounced Maduro as Venezuela’s president. In the months following Maduro’s “election,” Juan Guaido, representative of the National Assembly declared himself interim president with the recognition of
Most of the time, I love my students. As a college writing instructor, I come across all types. My writing class is a prerequisite for many other classes, and because of that, my students range from hard-core perfectionists to disgruntled mid-lifers, to precocious high school students, to bored grandmas, to battle-worn military veterans. Sometimes they are all in the same class. All are there for an infinite variety of reasons.
The last few years have been a good time for makers of shows and films about religious cults. Not too long ago, Netflix released a 1994 documentary called Children of God. It’s about an Australian New Age cult called The Family, a group that became famous in the 1990s due to revelations of child abuse, illegal drug therapy, and fraud. The past few years have seen at least two movies and
