You’ve likely got more going on than you realize (Excerpt from my book The Minds of Mass Killers: Understanding and Interrupting the Pathway to Violence. The holidays bring incredible stress for many people due to unhappy/unhealthy family dynamics, financial limitations, and unrealistic expectations.) We can be too quick to diagnose…

What You Need to Know About the Conspiracy Mindset (The following is a condensed excerpt from the chapter on conspiracism in my recent book The Minds of Mass Killers: Understanding and Interrupting the Pathway to Violence). Conspiracy stories surround us. The tales have gotten stranger and stranger over time: alien…

Consequences can be hard to overcome, but there is hope The following is excerpted from my book The Minds of Mass Killers: Understanding and Interrupting the Pathway to Violence (McFarland, 2021). Available through all booksellers. How the brain adapts to trauma The fight/flight response is the nervous system’s natural response…

Sometimes you have to say a few things I’ve always been a proselytizer, though the content of my pushy messages has evolved over the years. I am no longer the 15-year-old absurdly confident pseudo-missionary, street-witnessing for Jesus on Saturday nights on E Street in San Bernardino, California. It was the…

The fog is soft with a glow smelling of kelp and eucalyptus the kind of wet that dampens your hair and requires a jacket. We walk two small dogs, leashed, and a lion-cat, unleashed, up and down the hills through neighborhoods that are mostly dark. There are no cars, but…

My dear friend your laugh is still hardy, though it comes less often than before before, we planned adventures Alaska in the summer or Iceland, to see the northern lights we planned to start that business a splendid one we’d both enjoy, precisely the color of our parachutes spinning tales…

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” — Abraham Lincoln Ever…

Or, Midnight on Facebook It struck me as funny a moment ago that I’m sitting here and conversing with so many of you who are conversing and if the end of the world started we’d all be making posts the exact same post at the exact same time saying “What’s that…