by Morning Reflections | Oct 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
We live in the era of the Zombie Renaissance.Zombies are everywhere, slouching or scrambling their way through feature films, TV series, Halloween bashes, and even a tongue-in-cheek CDC safety guide on how to survive a zombie apocalypse. The classic zombie myth...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
Touring rock stars can make some unusual demands.When Eminem is overseas, he asks that his hosts provide Taco Bell menu items imported from the United States. Kanye West demands a slushy machine in his dressing room – one that generates an ice-cold mashup of...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Life is full of close calls.I’m reminded of that when my family wades into one of those “Remember when…?” conversations that inevitably dredges up childhood near-misses.There was the day, for example, when I got too close to the neighbor’s burning brush pile while...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Sunbeams over clouds In 1963, as a young, newly minted sociologist, Rodney Stark was given the chance of a lifetime. On behalf of the Survey Research Center of the University of California-Berkeley, he was granted the privilege of designing the first-ever major...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
“Frankly, this song scares me to death.”That’s what the late folk rocker Harry Chapin said about Cat’s in the Cradle (1974), his only song that ever went to No. 1 on the charts.The song tells a multi-generational story of a father who is too busy to spend time with...
