Seeing Clearly: Hidden Mental Illness in Men I’ve Loved
Would you beat this child with a stick? What’s done is done One more second chance would be enough Only on the brink can we see so clearly — “Nocturne, ” Tesseract How could…
Can Empaths Be Cruel? The Science of Evil and Its Effect on What I’m Writing
I’m glad I didn’t read Simon Baron-Cohen’s The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty before I began writing The Secret Lives of Librarians. Not that it’s a bad book. If I’d…
The Metaphysical Energy of Oil: Earth my Body, Oil my Blood?
Standing on the Walton-Okaloosa county line in a hazy sunset, looking out across the Midbay Bridge toward Okaloosa Island and Destin. This is Choctawhatchee Bay, which the local county is trying to block oil from…