Tag Archives: childhood

baby dolls

Your childhood follows you wherever you go. Every day we hear about children being abused, abducted, and even murdered. It’s the same news over and over but without anyone asking “Why does this happen?” Instead the focus seems to be … Continue reading

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Bebina’s Moominvalley Summer

for Connie who, one morning drinking coffee in front of the sea, told me about the Moomins Your childhood follows you wherever you go. That morning Bebina Bunny sat on her terrace writing in her diary. A lot was going … Continue reading

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Morning Glory Momma

Here’s my mom washing her 1959 Chevy. It must have been around 1968 and sometimes people would tease my mom because her car was so old and stylistically dated. And when they did, she would simply say “It’s what I … Continue reading

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Prediction or Prevention

When the notorious Calabrian criminal Giuseppe Villella died, Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist and physician, performed a post mortem on him. Lombroso discovered that Villella had an indentation at the back of his skull similar to those found in apes. Like … Continue reading

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Miss Marple, My Favorite Profiler

During the 1970s, the FBI used much tax payer money to create their Behavioural Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia. Not only many books have been written about criminal profiling but the TV and film industry has made a huge profit … Continue reading

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