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Troubleshooting the family dog’s problem behaviors can completely derail your thoughts, time, and budget.

In fact, I had a whole different blog post planned for today, but I just couldn’t find the words.

I can't think straight because my dog has just started chewing up shoes, papers, Legos, and the occasional headlamp.

Continue Reading "The Bad Dog Blues" →

Are you a podcast lover? Yes? So are we! Learn more about our upcoming event featuring the Chicago based, literary themed “The Lit Review” podcast and other favorite podcasts.

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I have loved horror stories since I was a little monster.

I cut my baby fangs on R.L. Stine's Goosebumps books before ripping through the stories of Shirley Jackson and H.P. Lovecraft. I murdered most of Dean R. Koontz's novels before devouring all the works of Stephen King.

Like a ravenous vampire, I'm always thirsting for more, and I lap up horror stories like, well, like a small pool of blood collecting in the hollow of a throat.

Continue Reading "Books That Go Bump in the Night" →

As an avid reader of books, most often books for teens, I find myself getting tired of reading the same tired plot over and over again.   

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Truth is stranger than fiction.

So wrote Lord Byron nearly two centuries ago in the poem Don Juan, reportedly the first recorded use of that saying.

Continue Reading "2017 Medical Memoirs: Real-Life Drama" →