Warning: this counseling session is not going to coddle you. Quality counseling sessions should never coddle you. After all, good therapy

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After the very first rough draft of Within The Summit's Shadow was reviewed by my beta readers, one resounding criticism was consistent from every one of tho...

Today the horizon will swallow the sun early, plunging us into the darkest night of the year. How symbolic it is: a blackened day of hopeless cold occurring ...

As a kid, she was a prodigy and today she remains a virtuoso. Elizabeth McBrien, heroine of Within The Summit's Shadow, the second paranormal romantic suspen...

Has it happened to you? An aggressor confronts you, loud and angry. unleashing a torrent of venom into your face. Your head races - a sputter of indignation,...

It's all about the food! What are you serving this year? Your tried-and-true Christmas cocktails? New appies or old favorites? Which side dishes are a must-h...

You see the memes every day: ‘Have an Attitude of Gratitude’ or ‘What if, today, we were just thankful?’ They’re cute, and in some vague way we know they’re ...

Wrapped within the memories of our lives a soundtrack plays on—some tracks chosen and purposeful, others there because they just ‘fit’, and still others have...

The Infinity Club is a gilded den whose fine grain hardwood cradles one’s feet before supple leather offers softness to lounge upon. The lighting inside is o...

Ellis wore no watch and did not own a calendar, yet his hands could read, by the bites of cold, how far the Earth had turned from the sun. His feet could sen...

Author Lionel Shriver said “The fatal flaw of good people is that they believe everyone is just like them.” A few people have approached me recently, for per...

The Circleville Letter Writer It is 1976: Hair is feathered, dresses are long, and men’s suits are pastel polyester. Porn has become more mainstream, and rum...

They say reading gives you somewhere to go when you have to stay put, so take my hand and let me lead you to some of the most precious places you’ll find in ...

Sex scenes are not easy. (There’s a joke there somewhere—or maybe just a punchline). There’s a choreography to crafting these exchanges; they have to make an...

A mystery is a name called into a bottomless wishing well. One of my hobbies - dubious as it may be - is researching unsolved mysteries. I am *that* person w...

So…that scene where Weste tears Shaynie’s panties off in that lingerie store change room in West Edmonton Mall...who do I know that really did that? How abou...

When Buffy Sainte-Marie said "Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel", it was like she stole the phrase from my heart. As a medium, music ...

Winston’s eyesight was dodgy. He tripped over his own feet more often than not. But when it came to his intuition he was never wrong. That’s how he knew that...

I like the motto which reads: "All it takes for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing." I also subscribe to the dictum that warns “if you're not a part...