The wilderness of Alaska has been an ongoing source of inspiration to the artistic community. This magical state’s austere beauty and rugged terrain attract both courageous adventurers and nature enthusiasts seeking solace. Unspoiled... Read More

In comedy parlance, a throwaway joke gets delivered in a casual, easy manner. Its power comes from the lack of emphasis placed on it. A throwaway works only when the comedian or writer refrains from showing any awareness that he’s even... Read More

Eddie Morales’ poetry collection, "The Suicide Sonnets", is a meditation on what suicide really entails. Rather than deal with the aftermath of such a death, these poems crawl into the psyche of someone truly considering ending their... Read More

The Bible prescribes “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” as compensation for an injustice, but Gordon Planedin writes about situations that he believes call for more violent solutions. In "An Eye for a Tooth", he offers five... Read More

There are versions of the South that sell glossy magazines. And then there’s the South itself: a little bit grittier, a little less polite. More fighting and less showering, more guzzling and less sipping As editor Tom Franklin... Read More

At ten years old, Rick Lenz witnessed a childhood prank go terribly wrong while at a Michigan lake. Lenz and his friend Dixie Thorpe had just changed into their swimsuits and were walking towards the dock when some older boys who... Read More

One child in eighty-eight is now recognized as having an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to the latest estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network.... Read More

“The information in this book is based on work by a dedicated group of parents focused on helping others understand a complex and misunderstood dual diagnosis—autism and epilepsy.” With "Silently Seizing", Caren Haines, a... Read More