The Gist of Life: Ain’t What it Was Book 2, by octogenarian Robert Perdue, considers diverse topics, most of which center on the “days of yore” and “modern social blight” from a traditional, circumspect vantage. Tinged with... Read More

Twenty-four-year-old Sophia is at a crossroads in her life in London. “The bright lights, the eccentric people, had all lost their glitter. It was no longer an adventure here, just a very lonely place full of very lonely people.”... Read More

Editor Dolores H. McNany gathered fifty-nine letters from American school nurses. Many are unexpectedly moving and deeply revelatory about the very personal and professional reasons these (mostly) women chose their niche in nursing; some... Read More

For ten years, Gwynn Davies has been a BMW motorcycle mechanic, and Moon Tanning: Motorcycles, Mechanics, Mayhem, a collection of eighteen stories, is inspired by his work at a dealership in Victoria, Canada. He describes the... Read More

Parody is everywhere today. From The Onion to The Colbert Report, from Saturday Night Live to The Office, people love to make fun of things. Robert Chambers, a decorated journalist and college literature teacher, gives readers "How to... Read More

Everybody knows cookies are a no-no before dinner. Of course, people still ruin their appetites because nothing compares to the joy of destructive self-indulgence. But serious self-indulgence comes with a higher price than a bellyache.... Read More

In "Changing Behavior", Georgianna Donadio, a Florence Nightingale scholar and nurse advocate, outlines her innovative methods for training health-care professionals to better communicate with patients and encourage sustainable behavior... Read More

The weight of the world presses down. We know we can’t possibly take one more thing. Then the phone rings. Or we view our dreams from afar and believe that achieving them is impossible. The obstacles loom like Mount Everest. Yet, as... Read More