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Sense Memories

The term Aesthetic was first coined in 1735 to mean “the science of how things are known via the senses.”  Another way to describe it would be to say that it deals with an individual’s understanding of...

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Incisive Insights

We all carry scars. Roadmaps of the painful journeys we’ve had to endure. Unlike the distinctive hallmarks that make up the natural landscape of our of our lives, these marks carry with them lessons of...

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Mastering the Art of Medicine

“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.”      ~Hippocrates, The Father of Medicine During the 1930s, one of  the most striking medical innovations was a relatively simple...

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Sirens & Sanity

What is interesting to note is that this collection of narratives takes place during the initial period following First-Wave Feminism. What is interesting to note is that in the period between...

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Filtering Reality: The Ether of An Era

What is interesting to note is that unlike the film version, Girl, Interrupted is more like looking through a scrapbook. What is also interesting to note is that this story takes place in one of the...

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Bittersweet Fruits

“The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal!” ~Ovid, Roman Poet From 1932-1972, the U.S. Public Health Service, working with the Tuskegee Institute, conducted a clinical study in Macon County,...

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K-PAX: Probing Prot’s Psyche

“There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.” ~ Polybius Precisely 1,000 light years away in the Lyra constellation, in a completely...

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K-PAX Clips

“We are each on our own journey; each of us are on our very own adventure encountering all kinds of challenges, and the choices we make on that adventure will shape us as we go. Those choices will...

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McLean & Monroe: Twins?

“A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane.”                              ~George Augustus Sala If you read the charter for Mclean Hospital and read it’s statement of...

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Other Voices, Other Rooms

One of the things that I find so interesting is how our lives are shaped and based on where and with whom we spend them.  After all, that’s what life is: it’s a series of rooms.  And who we get caught...

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