There was a film back 1981 called The Entity, reportedly based upon a true story. It starred Barbara Hershey as a woman being haunted, stalked, and periodically raped by an invisible entity or spirit. Whatever this thing was, it was obsessed with the person, not a location or object. I was reminded of this on … More Prone to Being Haunted? Don’t Ignore It

If you’re living hand-to-mouth and saving nothing, or if the credit cards are maxed out and you constantly find your wallet empty once you’ve bought food, paid bills, and made minimum payments, it only takes one unplanned expense to cause everything to fall behind. Meeting these obligations feels great compared to the dread of deciding … More Not Treating Paydays Like Holidays

I saw a bumper sticker on a car today that read plainly, “War is not the answer.” That seemed like an unrealistically blanket statement to me. Surely I could come up with at least a few instances when war might be the answer, right? When a bigger, stronger nation decides to invade and the United … More Actually, War MIGHT Be the Answer…

I’ve been looking for this word for a while. Pareidolia deals with the psychological tendency to recognize “self” in others and/or in other things. The ability for the human brain to do this may date back to a fight-or-flight instinct or a time when our eyes and ears were not so precisely developed. But as … More Pareidolia: Seeing and Hearing the Familiar