In one popular horror movie, a babysitter gets a phone call
- okay, lots of phone calls  - asking if she’s checked the children. Of course,
she hasn’t: that’s the audience’s cue that scary stuff is about to happen. 

The funny thing is, the question is our cue in real life,
too. Every parent knows that  you have to make sure your kids are taken care of;
the really hard part is remembering that kids ma... Read More

Fifty years ago, Clairol tantalized the country with the question, “Does she. . . or doesn't she?" Ostensibly, the answer was about hair coloring ("Only her hairdresser knows for sure") but that certainly wasn’t the only thing on audiences’ minds. Men everywhere wanted to know: did she . . . leave anything to him in her will?

All right, maybe that wasn’t what they were asking. After all, the truth is out there. The fact of the matter is, your... Read More