Christmas shopping is an unmitigated nightmare. People have died. I’m not great with crowds under the best of circumstances, but a box-shaped maze full of this year’s must-have items and 700 of your neighbors still coming down from a combo of too much turkey and too much alcohol is a bridge too far. A tension […]
Thanksgiving is always the 4th Thursday of November. But that can be all over the place in terms of the actual date of November. In this chaotic and vaguely apocalyptic year of our Lord 2024, it is on the twenty-freaking-eighth. By the time we finish ungodly amounts of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and the green […]
I’ve been missing a lot these last few weeks. My Instagram has been all but empty, and I started several articles, mostly about my general dissatisfaction with Christmas storming in like an elephant on meth before the Halloween wrappers were even cleaned up but posted none. Honestly, my creative brain was fully tapped out. It […]
Literature has long been a part of the political landscape. Authors write what they know. And what they experience. Many are part storytellers and part political commentators. So much so that the mere ability to read has, at times and for various groups, been a defiant and potentially life-threatening act of rebellion against one’s oppressors. […]
Did you know that “The Ring”, a 2002 blockbuster hit, was based on a book? It paved the way for the J-horror craze of the early 2000s and it terrified me when I saw it in theaters. Don’t let the PG-13 rating fool you. The Ring is scary. While the book doesn’t deliver terror in […]
My teen and I love horror movies. We see an absolutely absurd number of them every year. Everything from Jordan Peele’s newest deeply thought provoking and scary in an oh-god-this-is-an-accurate-treatise-on-societal-issues type of horror to teens-enter-scary-location-and-are-systemically-killed-but-I-don’t-really-care-because-they-are-all-kind-of-awful type of horror and everything in between. This has led, especially me after many years, to become a little jaded. […]
I’m a naturally skeptical person. Maybe even outrageously so. Ghosts, absolutely not. Psychics, 100% fake. Bigfeet (bigfoots??), I don’t think so. But I do love all the stories about them. So naturally, when planning our epic honeymoon, Kevin and I had to find somewhere that blended our combined interests. Many couples will go gallivanting off […]
Spooky season is my favorite. I’m a horror girl through and through. Movies, books, video games, horror is my favorite genre. There’s just something about picking up one of the scariest books you’ve ever read and huddling in your comfiest chair during the darkening months of the year that can’t be matched by other media. […]
Remember that dumpster fire of a time I’ve been having? All that bad luck trapped in such a short period it was almost comical…almost. I was begging for just a small amount of bland, tasteless life for a few weeks. I can only imagine that the moment I hit post, the powers that be laughed […]
Happy Spooky Season! This month, we will look at some spooky new releases and a few paperbacks. This book was just released on October 1st and explores the life of an unusual family living in isolation on a bog in Appalachia. The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister is surprisingly relatable considering, at least to my […]
