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A Quiet Place: Day One -- How Character Drives Genre

A Quiet Place: Day One is one of those movies, the ones with the U-shaped reviews. Lots of 1s, lots of 5s, not a lot of 3s. Either you...

Gender-Specific Toxicity and Why It’s All About Power

This is risky, but I’m going for it. I know I said in my introductory post I wasn’t going to talk about political issues in this blog....

Turn the Tide

For people you love For yourself For your friends For your enemies For all nations For all individuals For now For the future Work for...

Travels With Nellie: Scottsdale Play Day

A phrase you hear in Southern Arizona fairly often in the summer is "It's like a reverse winter." In other words, one way to deal with...

Sod the Requiem

Trigger Warning: the following discusses the counterproductive, unsustainable, and altogether really stupid promotion of metaphorical and...

When Murder is Entertainment

Recently, I listened to an interview on a true crime podcast with a representative of the National Organization of Parents of Murdered...

Two Rules...

I present herein two rules for managing not only regular old run-of-the-mill aging, but also adult-onset disabilities: One: Do not...

Travels With Nellie: Tierra Verde Lake Park

I've decided to add a new series to the blog, "Travels With Nellie" "Nellie" as in "Bly." As in, we go on adventures together. Nellie is...

The Cozy Manifesto

When you're a writer of any degree, there comes that moment both wonderful and scary when someone askes, "So, what do you write?"

Welcome to Kell Brigan's Blog

I've decided it's time to start acting like a Real Writer, especially since I'm starting to get some money from this gig.