PA Ritzer’s Blog

“Seven Ox Seven” Amazon #1 Bestseller in Several Categories

By P. A. Ritzer | Jun 21, 2012 | Comments Off on “Seven Ox Seven” Amazon #1 Bestseller in Several Categories

I want to thank all who purchased Seven Ox Seven, Part One: Escondido Bound, when it was featured on the Kindle Daily Deal on Amazon.com on Friday, 18 May 2012. The results of the promotion are that Seven Ox Seven, Part One achieved bestseller status on Amazon.com as follows: #1 on Amazon.com for Historical Fiction, […]

Read More

Seven Ox Seven on Kindle Daily Deal, Friday, May 18

By P. A. Ritzer | May 18, 2012 | Comments Off on Seven Ox Seven on Kindle Daily Deal, Friday, May 18

Seven Ox Seven, Part One: Escondido Bound has been selected for the Kindle Daily Deal at Amazon.com for Friday, May 18, 2012, one day only deep discount.  All are encouraged to take advantage of the deep discount for Seven Ox Seven for this one-day event.

Read More

Attraction, Feelings, and Love

By P. A. Ritzer | Apr 3, 2012 | 1 Comment

3 April 2012 Copyright © 2012 by P. A. Ritzer I called in to the Laura Ingraham show on 22 March to comment on the issue of living together before marriage. Basically, I said: Women need to get a clue; if a man loves you, he’ll wait. As I used to ask my students: when […]

Read More

Conscience, Law, and the Buffalo Hunt (Part Two)

By P. A. Ritzer | Mar 1, 2012 | Comments Off on Conscience, Law, and the Buffalo Hunt (Part Two)

1 March 2012 From Seven Ox Seven, Part One: Escondido Bound, the second of three excerpts from pages 219-228. Copyright © 2007 by P. A. Ritzer And to whom or what were the lawful and the lawless passing on their responsibility and freedom when they passed them on to the state? Well, at least in the United […]

Read More

Obamacare, the Church, and the Stupak Amendment

By P. A. Ritzer | Feb 16, 2012 | 1 Comment

15 February 2012 Copyright © 2012 by P. A. Ritzer In light of the Obama Administration’s recent attack on the Church, religious liberty, and freedom of conscience, I think back to the unseemly process by which Obamacare passed the Congress and how the Stupak Amendment conciliated Church leadership. On Sunday, November 8, 2009, we received […]

Read More

Conscience, Law, and the Buffalo Hunt (Part One)

By P. A. Ritzer | Feb 2, 2012 | Comments Off on Conscience, Law, and the Buffalo Hunt (Part One)

1 February 2012 From Seven Ox Seven, Part One: Escondido Bound, the first of three excerpts from pages 219-228. Copyright © 2007 by P. A. Ritzer Tom, for his part, still reflected as he rode along through the region in the dust of the trailing herd. One thing of which he was sure was that the […]

Read More

Revisiting Dr. Seuss in Parenthood (Part Two)

By P. A. Ritzer | Jan 22, 2012 | Comments Off on Revisiting Dr. Seuss in Parenthood (Part Two)

22 January 2012 (continued from Part One) The following commentary first appeared in Saint Austin Review, July/August 2005.  It appears here with some revisions. Quotations in quotation marks and block quotes are from the works being considered. Copyright © 2003 by P. A. Ritzer Still, though taken by the creative and enjoyable conveyances of multi-fold truths […]

Read More

Revisiting Dr. Seuss In Parenthood (Part One)

By P. A. Ritzer | Jan 9, 2012 | Comments Off on Revisiting Dr. Seuss In Parenthood (Part One)

5 January 2012 The following commentary first appeared in Saint Austin Review, July/August 2005.  It appears here with some revisions. Quotations in quotation marks and block quotes are from the works being considered. In this election year, we might give special attention to the case of Yertle the Turtle and consider well the growing weight […]

Read More

Not Tough Enough for Hell

By P. A. Ritzer | Dec 8, 2011 | 2 Comments

Copyright © 2011 by P. A. Ritzer 8 December 2011 Remember some of those old movies, war movies or cowboy movies, where some character in the film played by John Wayne or Robert Mitchum or Lee Marvin says something along the lines of: “I’ll see you in hell.” The impression conveyed is that this guy […]

Read More