By Eugene C. Scott The recent near riots on “Black Friday” prove once again truth is at least as twisted as fiction. In her Young Adult novel “The Hunger Games,” Suzanne Collins invented a science fiction world in which television is used to manipulate and control...
Looking back I don’t know how we hadn’t lost our house. My mom had tried to sell our simple suburban red brick ranch several times but my brother and I didn’t want to move so we kept taking the for sale sign down. Maybe the market was similar to today too. I’m...
By Eugene C. Scott I’ve been hunting elk off and on–mostly on–for the past thirty some years. For most good hunters, hunting is not about the kill (Good here refers to moral character not skill level, of which I have finite amounts: skill level not morals....
By Eugene C. Scott What do Charles Schultz, Beethoven, J.R.R. Tolkein, Johann Sebastian Bach, Rembrandt, Charles Dickens, Georg Handel, Annie Dillard, Graham Greene, Michelangelo and C.S. Lewis have in common? No, they are not all dearly departed. Author Annie Dillard...
By Eugene C. Scott “Look, that dog is smiling,” kids would say pointing at Anastasia, our white and black spotted dog. It was true. Her dark lips curled up in a discernible smile and her eyes sparkled whenever we took her for a walk. “Is it a Dalmatian?” “Nope, just a...
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