All Kinds of Monsters Part Three The Third Monster: Me My monster, myself. This is the final installment of the pain series, my take on...

All Kinds of Monsters Part Two The Second Monster: Friends You got to have friends, right? Or so the song says. When working on your...

All Kinds of Monsters Introduction* Good versus evil. Truth versus lies. Beauty and the Beast . Who's turning on whom? I know you think,...

I’m baaack! After a summer hiatus from this blog space, I have returned. One of my favorite fairy tales is Sleeping Beauty. (The...

The virgin. A succubus. Devil with a Blue Dress. The Devil Inside. As a proclaimed horror lover, I’ll be honest. There is nothing that...

We come into this world in blood and sometimes, we leave it in blood. Children skin their knees, their elbows. We comfort them, bandage...

I once wrote the words, “I write as a way of keeping my sanity.” But do I? Am I? Some days, I feel like I have my shit together. Some...

I’ve been at the writing thing for several years now. I started a blog when my children were very little. A nonfiction thing, musings...

Last month, I began to think and write about, “Why Horror?” and what horror can offer. I’ve taken a deeper dive down the proverbial...

I felt the need to address this. It brings to mind the time a few years ago when my mother asked me why I liked skulls, had them in my...

Proud parents of 6th graders, watching their child select a shiny new instrument for the first time. You’re smiling big, glowing even....

Down the rabbit hole we go. How many subgenres of horror are there? Here are some to name a few: psychological, thriller, slasher,...

I began to put my first book together in 2020. You know THAT year. The year when we all had more time on our hands for all the wrong...

“Ring the bell, close the book, quench the candle.” -Sidney Redlitch in Bell, Book and Candle , 1958. We all have them, rituals. We...

I've been thinking about the words temptation and resistance. I work in time blocks. I have my day divided into sections: Home, Admin,...

I recently watched Ari Aster’s Midsommar for I don’t know, the fourth or fifth time. That last scene, man, when a smile begins to spread...

“It’s a new day…and I’m feeling good.” Thinking about these lyrics today by Nina Simone. It’s a new day for this blog. Been feeling stale...