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February 2026

February 08, 2026

Luc Besson’s Dracula Is Better Than The Critics Say

Here’s the bottom line on Luc Besson’s new Dracula movie: it’s beautiful and fascinating, and...

December 2024

December 29, 2024

November 2022

November 30, 2022

Wednesday

“Wednesday” isn’t “The Addams Family” – if you expect “all together ooky” you’re going to...

October 2022

October 09, 2022

The Four Great Draculas

There have been over 200 portrayals of Dracula in movies and TV. I don’t know...

September 2022

September 13, 2022

An American’s Thoughts on the Death of Queen Elizabeth

The Queen is dead – now what? Whether we are Americans, Britons, or otherwise, electing...

September 08, 2022

From “A New Age is Dawning” to “Tower Time” – What It Means When People Predict Bad Times

For 300 years, people in the West lived in an era of near-continuous progress. Everyone...

August 2022

August 18, 2022

8 Pieces of Bad Advice

I don’t take advice. I listen and I evaluate, and if something makes sense to...

March 2022

March 13, 2022

Celebrating Spring in Uncertain Times

Spring is the season of hope, but my hope is rather uncertain at the moment....

January 2022

January 09, 2022

Seeing Mundane Activities Through a Sacred Lens

The sacred must remain sacred. If it becomes ordinary, it will lose its power to...

December 2021

December 29, 2021

September 2021

September 02, 2021

You Are Good Enough, And You Can Be Better

Some people say we should try to become the best versions of ourselves that we...

July 2021

July 27, 2021

How to Find a Good Reader

Finding a diviner is easy. These days it seems like half the people on Twitter...

June 2021

June 29, 2021

13 Year Blogiversary of Under the Ancient Oaks

Today is the 13th anniversary of Under the Ancient Oaks. On June 29, 2008, I...

June 15, 2021

Why Do So Many of Us Want to Run Away?

Running away is one of humanity’s primary survival strategies – “fight or flight.” Why do...

May 2021

May 20, 2021

Three Unmatched Questions: Grief, Books, and Basketball

I have three questions left from this round of Conversations Under the Oaks. They don’t...

May 02, 2021

Why I Read Tarot For Divination

There are many divination systems – you should pick the one that’s best for you....

April 2021

April 04, 2021

The Irregulars

The Irregulars grabbed me. It’s not great, but it is good. The 8-episode series dropped...

April 01, 2021

Where Would You Live, If You Could Live Anywhere?

A simple question – if you could live anywhere, where would you want to live?...

January 2021

January 08, 2021

The End of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

If you’ve seen the first three seasons you’ll want to see the fourth, if only...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

November 2020

November 02, 2020

The Journey Leads Forward, Not Backward

Childhood dreams can be nostalgic, but we abandoned most of them because they didn’t fit....

November 01, 2020

The Craft: Legacy – A Movie Review

The Craft: Legacy is a good movie with a good theme. It doesn’t have the...

October 2020

October 08, 2020

13 Songs for Halloween: A Video Playlist

This is my October soundtrack – the songs I listen to and videos I watch...

August 2020

August 11, 2020

Trump is Fundamentalism’s Battle of the Bulge

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes – and history is rhyming right now....