Way back when I was a free-range kid in coastal Southern California, there was a decent-sized freshwater pond about a twenty-minute walk through the barbed-wire…
Posts published by “Steve Heilig”
I once had a roadside chat with a leprechaun in Ireland - even though I don’t really believe in such creatures and was not on…
Thou shalt not seek to insert anti-abortion words into the Bible or any other scriptures where it is never once mentioned, nor seek to breach…
One of my longtime favorite friends is Len Finocchio, who besides being a bigshot health expert with a doctorate in public health is a former…
The favorite books of one's youth can be dangerous stuff. One of the highest-risk authors for me turned out to be Ernest Hemingway. His writing…
The first time I heard Rush Limbaugh was on my father’s car radio decades ago. Rush was lecturing away on some topic, I think illegal…
Winter in California, decades ago. I’d come back from traveling the world for almost two years after graduate school, with the primary aim of reuniting…
There’s an old actors’ trick that advises if you can’t bring on fake tears, just think of when your favorite dog died. It can work…
“Just pick any political meeting you wish, go to it, and write a short report,” ordered our high school “social studies” teacher, way back in…