Dysfunctional Festivities
The holidays are happy because they force us to leave the warmth of the illusion
of adulthood and watch our years of therapy slide down the sink with the scraps
of Christmas dinner
Alisa Harris
Alisa Harris has a B.A. in English from Hillsdale College in Michigan. She is a reporter for WORLD Magazine, writer for Patrol Magazine and teaches a journalism class at The King's College. She writes
Belief in the <em>Bones</em>
It’s Christmas at the Jeffersonian Museum, and a team of freakish forensics
scientists is clashing over the meaning of Christmas. Seely Booth, the Catholic,
sees it as a time to revisit the
Playing God on <em>Private Practice</em>
I watch Grey’s Anatomy [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413573/] for the fast-paced
gore and the overblown personal dramas. I watch its spin-off, Private Practice
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0972412/], for
Shutting Up Our Inner Censors
In a chapter of his beautiful and esoteric book of essays, Maps and Legends
[http://www.amazon.com/Maps-Legends-Michael-Chabon/dp/1932416897], novelist
Michael Chabon reflects on the fear of writing. In an essay
McCain, Barack and <i>30 Rock</i>
There’s only enough time in the day to choose between watching last season’s
comedy shows online and reading the news. Of course, I choose 30 Rock – an NBC
show about insecure,