Can You Guess The Death Row Last Meal? – A Quiz
By Dr. Jeri Fink Last meals are tricky. What would you choose? Your favorite dessert? How about the expensive Kobe steak you could never afford? Maybe it would be a seafood extravaganza, complete with lobster, shrimp, and clams or something simple like a McDonald’s cheeseburger and fries? Fortunately, few of us will ever have […]
My Computer is a Psychopath
By Dr. Jeri Fink One day my computer will kill me. No surprise. That’s what you expect from a killer psychopath. What is a psychopath? The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised – the bible of diagnostic tools – defines a psychopath as “someone who preys ruthlessly on others, using charm, deceit, violence or other methods to […]
Twelve Rules for Life as an Author
Authors don’t have ordinary lives. Ask them – I don’t know any writer who won’t happily tell you in 500 words or less. Whether writing the Great American Novel or how to outwit Bill Maher, authors have their own unique POV (point of view). As a writer, family therapist, and author of 27 books, I […]
An Author’s World
It’s not pretty out there. Here’s what I see from my windows. China publishes the largest number of new and revised book titles per year – 440,000. U.S is second at 304,912, and the United Kingdom is third at 184,000. UNESCO monitors the number and type of books published annually for each country, using […]
Welcome To My Cave
Welcome to my cave. It’s a place of organized chaos; a mirror for what goes on in my head. There are corners, crevices, and hideaways for everything. Check out my computers. As the daughter of an engineer, I’ve always been a computer geek. My friends like to call me a techie but I use computers […]
The Attack of the Commas
They mean blood. Lots of it. They embed themselves like ink maggots twisting words, skewing thoughts, and threatening deletion. I know. I’m a victim. It’s a serious assault. Everyone knows only amateurs abuse commas. Professionals like me, an author of twenty six books and hundreds of articles, are never victims of these dreaded creatures. Wrong! […]
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What Defines a Serial Killer?
T here are murders in this world every day. We read about them so often that we no longer have a sick reaction to the news, whether on television, in the newspaper, or on the internet – unless it affects us on a personal level. War, gang violence, and murders of passion are in the […]
What’s Your Theory? Is It Time to Connect the Dots?
R ecently, a sophomore at the University of Virginia, Hannah Graham, was reported missing. She met her friends for dinner, stopped off at two different parties off campus and was seen leaving alone from the second party. She had texted her friends at 1:20 am to let them know she had been lost trying to […]
What’s A “Good” Psychopath?
“P sychopath up.” says Dr. Kevin Dutton, a leading expert on functional psychopathy. “A bit of localized psychopathy is good for all of us.” Huh? Your first reaction might be that Dutton, a research psychologist from Oxford University, and author of The Wisdom of Psychopaths, might have had one too many servings of bangers and […]