Inspiration: During the summer as a kid, there was usually a point in each day when boredom struck: In the car driving to somewhere, after getting home from the beach but before dinner, in the early morning before it was socially acceptable to call for your friends. We all had to learn to make our own fun in one way or another. Challenge: Think back about an activity you enjoyed during the summer, or a game you created to kill time when summer boredom hit. Options: 1. Call

I bite my lips and Pick the skin around my nails Peeling back the layers Trying to uncover the reasons I’m here To retrace my steps To give this feeling a name To put my racing mind to rest But shedding the dead skin Does nothing more than Crack my lips and Scab my fingers Which hurt for days much longer than If I had let the dead skin fall off Naturally Eventually I wonder if my mind would do the same By Caitlin Thomas

(Read full series here) Welcome back to the Golden Age of science fiction! Well, sort of. If you read last month’s episode, you’ll recall the hot debate going on about the true end of the Golden Age in the U.S., with some arguing that it even persisted into the early-1960s. Again, I have no horse in this race, but I think I can make a pretty compelling argument that the 1950s deserves the ‘Golden Age’ moniker as well. Regrettably, the 1950s often gets left out of the Golden A