Author Archives: Granger Meador
Getting to Know the Nones
What is the second-largest religious group in the United States of America? We all know the largest is Christianity, which subsumes Catholicism and numerous Protestant denominations, and can include the more diverse beliefs of Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses, along with … Continue reading
The Populist Tide
Time and tide tarry for no one, and both are on my mind these days due to the political change that is transforming our republic. The United States of America has the oldest continuously operating written constitution, but its structures … Continue reading
My Increasing Sci-Fi Skepticism
I overindulged on “literature” in recent months. In August 2025, I read Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer-winning The Bridge of San Luis Rey and in September I followed that up with his ponderous National Book Award-winning The Eighth Day. I used a … Continue reading
Crystal Caves and Moon-Spinners
Mary Stewart was a British novelist, born Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow in 1916. She taught in grade schools and lectured part-time at Durham University before moving to Scotland with her husband in 1956. After nearly dying from an ectopic pregnancy … Continue reading
Four Measures of Personality
Hippocrates promulgated the first known personality model over 2,400 years ago, which led Galen to name four temperaments: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic, which were associated with proportions of four bodily fluids. Thankfully little of that nonsense survives outside of … Continue reading
