When I was in high school, I discovered an essay in an anthology of short stories entitled The Ambivalence of Abortion. The writer of the piece was a journalist who was describing her decision to have an abortion. She was married with children when she learned that she was again pregnant. She and her husband […]

Halloween is supposed to be the scariest day of the year, but for many of us it’s Election Day, and next Tuesday will be no exception. So much is hanging in the balance. We do hope anybody and everybody reading this has already or plans to vote. In that spirit, here are a few viewing […]

It’s that time of the year again. Halloween’s just around the corner and the onslaught of horror has begun – cinematically speaking, that is. Real life horrors, as we all know, have been underway for some time. Perhaps that’s why the horror genre seems to be drawing more and more from real life terror as […]