A fiction of the fear change and the fear of relationship. The quests that come to life in the red rocks of Northern Arizona's Sedona, where the majesty and energy of nature is the threshold -- the 'limen' of encounter, at a time when Homo sapiens teeters on the limen of extinction. What matters is interlaced with quantum physics, Martin Buber, mindfulness, Brahman and Atman, and new ways of seeing. A pushes his burden of failures up the hill of Sisyphus; a city scientist, bullied as a child dreads leaving her safety. She can not. The canyon calls. It a call to a prescription for the survival of us, the H. Sapiens collective. But the call asks too muc

You just watched the 6 o'clock news. Now ask yourself, "When is God going to throw in the towel?" God came close once before: The Flood of Genesis. And John, in the last book of the Bible, wrote the newscast for the Armageddon. So where do we stand right now?

Steve Simon doesn't presume to know. After all, he's an agnostic. But he does choose to believe in God. However, he's losing his faith in man. On the other hand, he hasn't lost his sense of humor and he has a cat to guide him through the hard times. Makes sense.

"The Rainbreaker" is a fable that attacks some tough moral issues with a lot of good-natured fun. Lest you think that the author is poking fun at God, rest assured. God always comes out on top. It's "stupid human tricks" (such as the failure of nearly all human institutions) that convince Steve Simon that God will not destroy the world but simply replace humans with animals. Or something like that. Adults who've enjoyed "Marley & Me" and the satire of Amrose Bierce, P.J. O'Rourke, and Chris Buckley will laugh out loud at this genre-bender with a message.