Steven H. Wilson

As with my father, I was asked to deliver the eulogy for my mother’s funeral. What follows is the text from which I worked last Saturday. I can’t promise that this is exactly what I said, but...

https://www.stevenhwilson.com/eulogy-for-evelyn-briggs-wilson/

Meta, via Facebook, has taken the place of the newspaper in society. In the pre-Internet days, newspapers did significantly more than report on foreign wars and partisan multi-generation duels. N...

https://www.stevenhwilson.com/open-letter-to-meta-this-time-your-algorithm-is-personal/

My apologies to the handful of you that already read this under a different title. The fact is that most of my traffic comes from the social media site that’s recently added a new algorithm to ...

https://www.stevenhwilson.com/rational-rebel-when-did-this-happen/

I started The Rational Rebel a couple of years ago to share thoughts related specifically to my home in Howard County, Maryland. These may not be of interest to all my regular readers, either bec...

https://www.stevenhwilson.com/from-the-rational-rebel-blog/

I keep my political life relatively quiet here. I don’t necessarily keep my opinions about issues quiet, but I haven’t talked much about my day-to-day political activities. I have friends acr...

https://www.stevenhwilson.com/there-i-go-turn-the-page/

July 25, 2023 It was 22 days ago that I wrote that Kirby was home. It was three days ago that we said goodbye to her. Start to finish, our journey with her illness was 28 days. I knew on … Cont...

https://www.stevenhwilson.com/goodbye-to-kirby-and-other-life-changes/

The headline is the important thing here. Inverted pyramid style, I put the most important fact even above the lede. That Kirby is home is the most important piece of news I have to share this we...

https://www.stevenhwilson.com/kirby-is-home/

I was not planning to review this book. I have read it countless times. Recently, when my grandson asked me to name my favorite book, I named two: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (to give him a more...

https://www.stevenhwilson.com/temporal-discrimination-a-reflection-of-heinleins-the-number-of-the-beast/

There is much pontificating among science fiction media fans about how damned moral we are, because we watched these TV shows and movies that taught a moral lesson. Oh my God, we are so moral! St...

https://www.stevenhwilson.com/its-okay-to-disagree/

So, right up front, there’s some doubt about the name of this story. It is consistently called “The Hell-Bound Train” wherever mentioned in The Hugo Winners, Volume I. Wikipedia credits it ...

https://www.stevenhwilson.com/review-the-hugo-winners-the-hell-bound-train/