Category Archives: Storytelling
The Stories We Need to Hear About Mental Health
May, mental health awareness month, makes me more aware than usual of the standard narrative [...]
May
Perspective Please: Bad Vegan fails to address addiction and mental health
Netflix nailed handling how the nuances of racism played out in the two-hour documentary The [...]
May
Afterparties—A Masterpiece
Author Dana Spiotta noted So’s ease with traversing so many different subjects, “from pop culture [...]
Feb
Freedom Writers Movie Misrepresented Teachers
How teachers are characterized in the 2007 movie Freedom Writers makes me jump out of [...]
Jan
The Voice’s Paris Winningham Spills His Heart and Soul on Stage
What would it sound like if you were singing for your life? Singing to stay [...]
Dec
When Inspiration Accosts You—Write a Short Story
Former mayor of Stockton Michael Tubbs gave a recent interview to the Los Angeles Times [...]
Nov
Could modern psychiatry save Sylvia Plath?
Why would a brilliant, young, beautiful woman kill herself? Heather Clark’s new biography, Red Comet: [...]
Oct
Could Juul’s marketing team have been that clueless?
It is possible to live in a bubble and ignore everyone and everything outside that [...]
Jun
Nutrition an issue in Demi Lovato’s 2018 relapse?
Demi Lovato released the first two episodes of her YouTube docuseries “Dancing with the Devil” [...]
Apr
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel adds to mental health stigma
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, a Netflix docuseries, is four hours long. [...]
Feb