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Are you someone who loves incorporating rituals into your life? I would guess the answer is yes, since rituals seem to be something we crave as humans. I have a few rituals I can't live without (including yogurt and tea every morning and decorating my Christmas tree with colored lights, [...]

I hope you're having a great fall as we head toward the holidays. To be honest, I was kind of sorry to see October end. I was thinking, as the month drew to a close, that October always seems to deliver more than a hundred percent. You know what I mean? The [...]

In The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan's friend Jordan Baker announces at one point during a conversation that, "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." Though Jordan isn't a very likeable character, I've always loved that quote. Because life does seem to start over again in the fall, doesn't [...]

I'm one of those people who go through life taking a lot of notes. It's probably because I feel both eager (yeah, and sometimes even a little desperate) for information. I want to know how to do the things that matter to me in the best possible way and with [...]

I bet you're thinking the same thing I am. How did it end up being July? Summer always flies, but this one seems to be going faster than most. I haven't even dug out all my t-shirts yet. There was one week in June, however, that didn't feel so rushed. In [...]

Has spring been good to you so far? The weather in New York City has been much cooler and damper than I would have liked, but over the years I've come to see that spring in New York really comes down to two (freakishly) warm days in February, one lovely [...]

First it was the herds of deer in the yard.  Then the ground hogs on the porch. And then, oh boy, the bear at the bird feeder. Lately, it seems, nature has been encroaching more and more on our weekend home in Pennsylvania. Sometimes it can be breathtaking. Like this [...]

Don't you love the feeling you get when someone does something nice for you out of the blue, something you didn't see coming but that ends up making your day? I had that experience the other night while I was signing books at the launch party for my new psychological [...]

Article originally appeared on thebigthrill.org The Secrets You Keep by Kate White Bigger, Bolder, Better—and Badass! By April Snellings Plenty of thriller protagonists find their lives or homes infiltrated by strangers who mean them harm; in the burgeoning genre of domestic suspense, though, they discover they may have already invited [...]