We've all had that moment when someone rings the doorbell unexpectedly, and we're frantically throwing things in closets and hoping they don't ask to use the bathroom. The thing is, even if your house ...

"Safe rooms" give you someplace safe to weather emergencies—and you don’t have to spend a fortune to create one. Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...