I recently shared a goal of mine to read more literature. Actually I think I referred to classics. Is there a difference? What is literature anyway? This debate comes up sometime at the Virginia Festival of the Book in which genre authors feel compelled to defend their work. Personally, I like genre fiction. I like [...]

The Internet has removed some inhibitions in people. It allows people to do and say things they wouldn’t usually say and do, often because they know society would frown on it. Sometimes it can be very scary. For example, the mother who created a MySpace page to torment a teen that lived down the street.
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I’ve gotten to the point where I can’t watch the news, read the paper or check what’s going on in the world online. War, poverty and the latest celebrity death and scandal are bad enough, but the government has gotten so out of hand, that it stresses me out to keep up with what’s going [...]