'Yesteryear' Will Make You Blame Natalie For EVERYTHING Would this be accurate though? This review will also be published on my Substack and will include the audio version. This version is slightly different. Enjoy! It takes a Herculean effort to write a book review for Yesteryear, because there is so much to tell and one must be creative to not spoil the story, while explaining the genius of this work. Which means the author really had to do some heavy lifting with her pen in order to create...

What Anime Can Teach Us About Being Human Note: I originally wrote this because I kept noticing something interesting about anime: underneath the action, fantasy, and sometimes complete absurdity, there are often surprisingly thoughtful lessons about friendship, perseverance, grief, identity, and what it means to be human. People will tell you to read philosophy, gain a religion, volunteer, meditate and even travel to become a better person — but I’m going to offer something much simpler....

Every Story Needs a Villain — And That’s Where Things Get Dangerous Books, movies, and social media all teach us to root for heroes and condemn villains…but does the world need a villain? WHEN I SEE something more than once, I count it as a message from the universe(or inspiration for a good article!). Villains are those who make the story. We love them, we hate them, but one thing we cannot deny is that without them, there would be no story. Just a bunch of self-righteous heroes with no...