By William Sears, MD & Martha Sears, RN

Can you s-t-r-e-t-c-h your way to Olympic gold?

A Wannabe Writer’s Guide to Rejection.

To be born male and Italian is to have won first prize in the Lottery of Life. This is one of nature's incontrovertible truths...

We select cars for practical reasons and maybe choose our car colors out of practicality too — most will choose white over black in the hot Southwest, for example. But when we fantasize about our dream cars, we dream in living color...

This article can be appreciated by all writers and filmmakers but will be of special interest to writers/storymakers who are trying to decide where to best invest their creative energies and talents – the novel or the screenplay.

Love operates on many levels. It involves a dauntingly complex interplay of biology and behavior. But it operates best when we add a certain spirit, when we consciously shape our relationships through an attitude of goodwill.

"We met girls down here who were 14, 15 years old. Of course, once they were here the pimps wouldn’t give them any money. They’d milk them for all they were worth because they knew that their lives were very short."

Whose theory is it that prostitution is victimless? It’s the men who buy prostitutes who spew the myths that women choose prostitution, that they get rich, that it’s glamorous and that it turns women on.

On a clear day, you can see for miles and miles and miles. The old saying turns out to be just about true. For a six-foot tall person, the horizon is a little more than 3 miles (5 km) away.