A Weekend at Thompson’s Lake August 30, 2025 Sometimes the adventures are closer to home than you think. My lady and I decided to try a new spot for a weekend getaway — Thompson’s Lake Campground. It’s just a short drive from where we live, but neither of us had ever been there before. The Good One of the best parts of the trip was canoeing around the lake. The water was calm, the shoreline green and inviting, and at […]
Morgan Senior Photos August 30, 2025 It’s senior photo season, and Morgan is marking this milestone with style and personality! From Mohonasen to the next chapter, these portraits at the Historic Fox Creek Covered Bridge show just how ready Morgan is to embrace all that lies ahead. Here’s to the memories still to be made and the milestones yet to come—Class of 2026, this is your time! Morgan – Senior Photoshoot Morgan – Senior Photoshoot Morgan – Senior Photoshoot Morgan […]
A Hidden Gem: Wolf Creek Falls Preserve August 30, 2025 Charm and Character Wolf Creek Falls Preserve is one of those hidden little gems you’re always hoping to find. It isn’t the longest or the most challenging trail out there, but what it lacks in length, it more than makes up for in charm and character. The trail winds through a peaceful forest, with the gentle sound of cascading water accompanying you nearly the whole way. Several small waterfalls and […]
The Performance, Not the Person My Story feels less like encountering Marilyn Monroe the woman and more like watching Marilyn Monroe the performance. The book presents itself as a memoir but never shakes the sense of being unfinished, stylized, and more concerned with image than honesty.Monroe casts herself as a misunderstood intellect, yearning to transcend the “dumb blonde” roles Hollywood pushed on her. Yet the life we know she actually lived—her choices, her career moves, her embrace of stardom—rarely matches […]
A Visit to the In-Between As a fan of dimensional horror, I found The Hollow Places to be an absolute treat—entertaining, unsettling, and deeply compelling. T. Kingfisher crafts a world that pulls you in with eerie wonder: the willows that whisper with menace, the shadowy remnants of those taken, and the strange bunkers that feel both grounded and otherworldly. The setting is richly fleshed out, and the storytelling never loses momentum. The protagonists are well-written and engaging. While the “eccentric […]
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager Is it haunted—or just ho-hum? I picked up “Lock Every Door” intrigued by the premise alone. A young woman gets a lucrative offer to apartment-sit at a mysterious, historic building in New York City with a troubled past? Sign me up. I was especially drawn to the idea that the Bartholomew itself could serve as a character—the kind of location steeped in so much atmosphere and sinister history that it starts to feel alive. […]
I recently finished Shatner Rules: Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large by William Shatner, and I have to say — I’ve really grown to respect the man, not just as Captain Kirk or the Priceline guy, but as an author and a human being who’s lived boldly and unapologetically. His stories are genuinely interesting. There’s an energy to the way he tells them — a momentum that carries you along as he jumps from his […]
A Familiar Haunting I came into Hell House by Richard Matheson with pretty high expectations. Matheson’s name carries weight in horror, and I was hoping for something that pushed boundaries or offered a fresh take on the haunted house genre. Instead, what I got felt a bit too familiar. The book didn’t grab me right away. It struck me as standard haunted house fare — a team of investigators trying to survive the night and break the curse. I was […]
A Short Stay in Hell is a deceptively simple, deeply unsettling novella that lingers long after you’ve finished it. Drawing from a unique blend of existential horror and speculative fiction, the story imagines a version of Hell that is quiet, repetitive, and almost maddeningly mundane—more Kafka than Dante. The book does a masterful job of evoking despair not through gore or torment, but through endless sameness, pointlessness, and the slow erosion of meaning. For fans of liminal spaces—the eerie in-between […]
I didn’t click with this one at first—it was recommended to me after reading “Piranesi” and “A Short Stay in Hell”. I expected a similar atmosphere, but Mount Char opened very differently. As the story progressed, though, the novel’s strange blend of myth and mundane slowly pulled me in. By halfway through, I was fully absorbed in Hawkins’ world, where ancient cosmic forces brush up against everyday reality. The figure of “Father”—obsessed with unlocking universal truths and extending his own […]
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