The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.

But if you kept thinking about a fight you’d lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.

You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.

I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.