After watching an episode of the cheesy TV show Ghost Adventures with a group of friends last weekend, I drove home late at night to a dark, quiet house. I tiptoed to my room as my housemates slept, and I climbed under the safety of my covers, with scenes from the ghost-hunting show still running through my mind. I'm usually skeptical when it ... [Read More…]

My mother never liked Halloween. It wasn't the candy or the costumes or even the dirty looks "real" Christians give you whenever you forget to call the Halloween party a "Fall Festival." She always just steered us away from what most people considered to be in the spirit of the holiday - ghouls, witches, ax murderers - and focused on the lighter ... [Read More…]

It's 4 a.m., and somewhere, someone is rocking out to Metallica, Blink 182 or Queen. Unless you've been living under a pile of typewriters and floppy discs for the past few years, you've at least heard about Guitar Hero by now. But how many of us have stopped to think how it's changed the very fabric of our lives? What's that? It hasn't? Au ... [Read More…]

When young children play, they seem lost in their own perfect worlds, where good always triumphs, the prince always saves the princess and Matchbox cars resurface from pileups unscathed. Nothing can disturb this utopia, except perhaps occasional potty breaks or Mom's call for a snack. Kids don't care which country may or may not develop nuclear ... [Read More…]