Book Review: ‘Breaking Through: Discovering the Riches Within’ by Allan...
Breaking Through is McDougall’s inspirational story of astonishing transformation from a hard rock miner in Northern Ontario, as deep in alcoholism as he was underground, and his journey back into the...
View ArticleTheater Review (San Antonio): ‘Water By the Spoonful’ by Quiara Alegría Hudes...
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Quiara Algeria Hudes’ Water By the Spoonful is the middle play in a Philadelphia-set trilogy that centers on Elliot Ortiz (Paul Ramos), a wounded Iraq war...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Walking Out the Other Side’ by Alan S. Charles
Alan S. Charles, like most of us, has had a life that could be viewed as full of wonderful things, or viewed as full of pain and misery. In other words, he is a prime example of the human condition, of...
View ArticleWhat’s Love Got to do with ADHD?
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to grow up relying on medications to control your behavior? “There’s this frustration, this anxiousness, not knowing who I actually am without the medication,”...
View ArticleTheater Review (NYC): ‘Strange Country’ by Anne Adams
The “strange country” of Anne Adams’s new play by that title is not the small-town Texas where it takes place. It’s the gnarled country of the minds and hearts of its three damaged, all-too-real...
View ArticleTheater Review (NYC): ‘The Motherf**cker with the Hat’ by Stephen Adly Guirgis
If the fresh new off-off-Broadway revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Motherf**cker with the Hat means to play off the Off-Broadway success in 2014-15 of Guirgis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Between...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Opioid Addiction in Women
Opioid use has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, posing new challenges for first responders, community service organizations, and healthcare professionals, among others. The use of...
View ArticleTheater Review (NYC): ‘A Life Behind Bars’ Written and Performed by Dan Ruth
Dan Ruth in ‘A Life Behind Bars’ Monologuist, comic, and bartender Dan Ruth has seen and heard an awful lot – and a lot that’s awful – in his decades treading the behind-the-bar boards in the taverns...
View ArticleAddiction Recovery: The Mind-Body-Soul Approach
You don’t have to do much research to confirm that our country is facing a massive crisis of opioid abuse, alcohol dependency, and addiction to both legal and illegal substances. The justice system and...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘You Exist Too Much’ By Zaina Arafat
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat, published by Catapult Press, tells the story of a twenty-something bisexual Palestinian American woman recovering from growing up with a narcissistic mother. Not...
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