Readers who might expect a doctor’s writing to be dry and stodgy will be pleasantly surprised by Ashraf A. Hilmy’s impassioned and brutally honest personal assessment of America’s health-care challenge. Most of what is written for... Read More

The term “small-minded” describes individuals who behave in a self-serving, inflexible way that is detrimental to others. Many of the psychiatrists in Christopher Hogart’s satirical novel, Shrunk, have minds that have diminished... Read More

Young children are very self-centered, and appropriately so, according to retired social worker Sheila Hale. A major developmental task of early childhood is to differentiate oneself from others, and children do it by comparing... Read More

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. — Frederick Douglass The freedom to read is shared by millions the world over. Nothing excites the mind, stimulates the senses, or charges the spirit like a favorite book. But what if... Read More

When twenty-three-year-old dancer and athlete Hunter Storm was seriously injured in a car accident, she had no idea how long it would take her to navigate back to health. Through significant weight gain, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia,... Read More

Cooking is a common metaphor used in literature for both adults and children and in humorous works and serious ones alike. In The First Secret: A Magic Recipe, Elina Stamatatou offers a spiritual, contemplative take on the classic... Read More