The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.

I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.

No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. It's about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness. The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit. ... Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen.(Armintrout, All Souls' Night, 367)

The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.