Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. — engraved inside The Statue of Liberty On Friday, January 27th, President Trump signed an executive order banning citizens of…
One’s reputation, whether false or true, cannot be hammered, hammered, hammered into one’s head without doing something to one’s character. – Gordon Allport After receiving a number of messages about the last two posts I’d written on self-affirmation, I was surprised to find that I had never discussed one of the primary uses for it:…
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. — Plato And so it begins… This previous Monday was the first in the series of presidential debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. And although the presidential debates can be informative and insightful to watch, surprisingly, there’s little evidence that they actually influence voter opinions. A careful…
In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients. — Thomas Szasz As we discussed last week, under certain circumstances or through certain disorders, people can experience some true, nighttime terrors—literal hallucinations where the evil doer is not dreamed but seen in front of the perceiver. And although these phantasms were short-lasting, with the…
Great stories happen to those who can tell them. – Ira Glass Everybody loves a good story. And as an extension of that, people tend to love a good storyteller. Sometimes I wonder why my mom married my dad. Sure, he would eventually help produce some amazing offspring, but she couldn’t have known that then. However,…
FEATURE SCREENPLAY HYSTERIA: On a trans-Pacific flight, the disappearance of a psychotic passenger sends the plane into chaos as the flight crew and several passengers race to solve the twisting mystery and survive the flight. 04/2022 – Quarter-Finalist: The Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship is an elite program to help budding screenwriters develop their work as well as gain…