For the past few years, I’ve kept a horror writing prompts book on my nightstand, fully intending to work on a prompt or two each night. However, I find that
Andres Digenio, MD, PhD, is a physician, researcher, and author who has spent much of his career helping people improve their health through changes in nutrition, physical activity, and everyday
A great philosophical argument to make is whether or not people can change. In the world of fiction, authors weigh different theories with their character arcs. With recurring characters, that
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When I was growing up, dog stories were everywhere. They were in movies, books, and TV, and even though I wasn’t a dog lover in real life, I couldn’t get
I can remember my first time watching Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film, Psycho, on Turner Classic Movies. I was 14 years old, it was late June 2000, and I was making
Janette DeFelice is a health sciences professor, author, essayist, former professional dancer, and physician who chose motherhood over medicine whose writing draws on themes of performance, motherhood, and the female
Classic tales of children getting lost in the woods tends to be scary, tense, and include a moral that shames the reader into doing the right thing based on how
Before I visit a famous place, I usually like to tour it virtually inside and out. That may seem like a way to spoil the experience, but a two-dimensional image
Reading with a one, two, or three year old is not really a performance. It is a small conversation. When a board book becomes a back and forth, your toddler
What is it about a certain type of writing that can grab us over all others? We’re all lured in by different forms of storytelling, and it’s fascinating to hear
What makes a place haunted? Those who believe in ghosts all have different theories, and I like to keep my mind open to each one. The more I explore haunted
As a society, we can’t help but put people in (figurative) boxes. Once we think we know someone, we immediately guess at the things they would and would not do.
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