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Stephen H. Provost is an author of paranormal adventures and historical non-fiction. “Memortality” is his debut novel on Pace Press, set for release Feb. 1, 2017.
An editor and columnist with more than 30 years of experience as a journalist, he has written on subjects as diverse as history, religion, politics and language and has served as an editor for fiction and non-fiction projects. His book “Fresno Growing Up,” a history of Fresno, California, during the postwar years, is available on Craven Street Books. His next non-fiction work, “Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street,” is scheduled for release in June.
For the past two years, the editor has served as managing editor for an award-winning weekly, The Cambrian, and is also a columnist for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo.
He lives on the California coast with his wife, stepson and cats Tyrion Fluffybutt and Allie Twinkletail.
Ruminations and provocations.
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In our polarized nation, we’ve come to confuse two very different things: The right to express an opinion with the feeling we’re entitled to impose it on others. The former is a hallmark of democracy. The latter a feature of dictatorships.
Read MoreWe Americans like to think of ourselves as innovators, people who “think outside the box.” We laud inventors and original thinkers... after they’ve become mainstream. But for the most part, we’re creatures of habit. We like the familiar, the tried and true. Heck, we even like the “tried” better than the untried, even if it’s not so true. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.
Read More“I’ll Be Home for Christmas” contains two minor variations, but they’re confounding because they both seem just about equally common. You never know which one they’re gonna sing! Is it, “you can plan on me” from the original Bing Crosby version, or “you can count on me” from Johnny Mathis’ popular cover?
Read MoreTrump’s immovable “base” isn’t loyal to him so much as they’re desperately loyal to the idea of a vanishing white-majority nation. He’s made himself a symbol of that by pandering to white supremacists and defending Confederate symbols, so they’ve latched onto him as a potential savior. But the fact is that, despite their panicked fervor, they’ve never pushed Trump’s popularity into majority territory.
Read MoreSo many things about the world today seem nonsensical. They seem antithetical to what I thought I’d figured out about the human nature. It turns out I don’t know as much as I think I did, which is too bad, because the stuff I thought I knew was a lot more encouraging than what I’m finding out. Here’s what I don’t understand.
Read MoreIn three short months, some white Americans have grown so impatient to “get back to their normal lives” that they’re willing to sweep the image of a man being brutally suffocated under the rug. How long, it must be asked, have Black Americans been waiting to get back to a normal life?
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