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In line with my belief that it’s important to always keep the resumé fresh, I signed up for first aid training six months ago and the first class is today. The Nine Circles exalts dying and death, but not for guests. Plus, most of us sit for nine hours a day and eat greasy meals at lunch, putting us at risk for croaking in our cubicles. A knowledge of first aid does not help ...

I don’t know if I like horror or not, honestly. I definitely like it more than I used to? Still, I don’t really ever want to turn on a movie that’s going to scare me. I like thrills, maybe a few chills… that’s it. So, here are some good Halloween movies that are very suspenseful and even a bit spooky and maybe even a little scary… but that won’t traumatize you. I think?

Book tours have taught me to expect the unexpected. There was the couple in Texas who kindly housed me but warned about their vicious late-night, door-opening, biting cat, and the time a prominent politician’s son asked me to edit his “fictional novel,” a thinly-veiled story about his father’s real-life exploits. But nothing prepared me for what happened in Eureka Springs, Ar...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you hike across the desert, intently looking at the ground, you will eventually find a dead body.

Let me back up a step to explain why an otherwise mentally healthy thirty-something woman would be hiking across the remote desert for so many thousands of trailless miles. It was because of #VanLife, actually, though this occ...

A mystery lover’s guide to what’s new to streaming this weekend.

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Dexter: Resurrection, season 2
(Paramount)

If you ha...