Sable Lit Reviews

I don’t usually write about dating websites, but a commercial from eHarmony.com completely caught me off-guard. If you watch television, you know very well the testimonial based commercials of this online dating matchmaker. Generally, they show a man and a woman who met via the website and are now happily married, engaged or dating. The [...]

A married couple struggling to maintain their connection and start a family recapture the perfection of young love in Veronica Blaque’s short story, Doppelganger. Though the story starts a little rough, but Blaque tells the story of a middle-aged woman tormented by her ticking biological clock, the strain of her marriage and a sexy stranger [...]

The two main female characters in Dorothy Phaire’s Murder and the Masquerade learn that unconditional love first develops from within. Psychologist Reneé Hayes is not only caught in a loveless relationship with her husband, she’s in a loveless relationship with herself. Striving not only to find love, she struggles to find someone to whom she [...]

  If you enter any kind of self-employment scenario after having been employed for many years, it is very difficult to break free of the “aim to please” mindset. Sure, the circumstances are similar. If you want to keep your job, you make your employer happy. If you want to keep your business afloat then [...]

Sometimes culture has far more factors affecting it than ethnicity. I came across a series of videos on Youtube which chronical the evolution of dance in America. It’s entertaining, comedic and nostolgic. It also got me to thinking our so many characteristics that make us unique are all variable when it comes to culture. There [...]

Many veteran freelance writers will tell you never write for free. That is excellent advice unless you are writing for yourself or you’re trying to break in with no clips to show prospective clients. If you are really that fresh, it may be necessary to write for free at least at first. I landed my [...]

I don’t know how many other people can say this, but throughout my life, I have always encountered people with the same first name as me. I recognize that my first name isn’t unusual, but I have often found myself in a work environment or a classroom with another Laura. If you include all the [...]

A good name is more than how it sounds to the ear; it has a lot to do with its place in culture and society. Certainly, President Obama had to overcome the connotations that are associated with the name Hussein, which happens to be his middle name. We’ve read the news stories about parents wanting [...]

I’ve always been struck by people’s names. It may have to do with the fact that people are often struck by mine. I don’t know how many times I’ve been told that ‘Laura Major’ is a cool sounding name. It could be because there is the same number of letters in my first name as [...]

As part of my interest in New Age culture and metaphysics, I have always explored the meaning of numbers and names. Is it a coincidence that people with the same name can be drawn to each other in the same way as people with the same sun sign? It’s not to say that everyone born [...]