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 from quirky coffee shops in Brooklyn, New York.
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 and our dignity, as our pretensions to maturity explode into the sibling rivalries we founded at the age of three. A Christmas [...]
Bones and Booth show the tension between the rationalistic worldview and a view that places some faith in mystery. Whose view wins in the end?
I watch Grey’s Anatomy for the fast-paced gore and the overblown personal dramas. I watch its spin-off, Private Practice, for all that along with its thoughtful treatment of bioethical dramas – the same dramas we’re seeing in real-life hospitals and public debate. The bioethics debate isn’t just a clinical and scientific debate or an abstract [...]
Whereas before, the impulse to express myself was instant and important, I lost not just the urge but the ability to communicate.
But why? Why do we have to choose between our insecurities? Most of us are complicated people.