BP20 Years ago, in my practice as a psychologist, I worked with a depressed woman named Anne (not her actual name). She grew up in a family where the old…

BP19 Taylor met her quite serendipitously, some might say. Others would say it was an unholy rendezvous. He had stopped at a restaurant to grab food with his co-workers, a…

BP18 It came out of nowhere for her. Isabelle was five years old when her mother abruptly abandoned the family for her ‘lover’. She left behind a husband and three…

BP17 (a continuation of BP16) Jeff and Amanda dare to enter the Forbidden Forest (FF) later that same night after Amanda’s summoning by the Bright One. They make their way…

BP16 Amanda grew up on a hobby farm and loved every minute of it—especially her horses. The only cloud that drifted across the azure-blue skies of her childhood was the…

BP 15 The essential component of evil is not the absence of a sense of sin or imperfection but the unwillingness to tolerate that sense. At one and the same…

BP14 A predominant characteristic . . . of the behavior of those I call evil is scapegoating. Because in their hearts they consider themselves above reproach, they must lash out…

BP13 “None of you get it," Curly announces. Then he reins in his horse and stares at his riding partner with steely eyes. “You know what the secret to life…

BP12 You go to the doctor because you’ve had discomfort in your stomach for several weeks. After lots of poking around in your abdomen area, followed by a CT scan…

BP11 How often do we hear about people dying in their sleep? A deadly murderer creeps into their room and smothers them. Not with their pillow. No, with a cloud…