This week, after attempting to trudge through The Beguiled (that's the fastest I've DNF'd in a long time!), I moved on to a long TBR-shelf stander: Stolen Songbird. I bought this book on a whim on Amazon forever ago, and for whatever reason I just never picked it up to...

It's a known fact in the world that a successful writer is typically a good writer. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, but in general, success is won by those with the ability to pen amazing novels. So as writers, how are we to determine the quality of our...

This week has been a tough one over here at Camp McCoy. 

On Thursday night, my grandmother swallowed a handful of pills and left a letter explaining why she was ending her life. 

On Friday morning, my grandfather found her and called 911, where she was found unresponsive...

Synesthesia: the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.

People who have synesthesia are basically experiencing life a thousand times better than the rest of us. They taste foods whe...