by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
I heard an interesting conversation the other day about finding my writer’s voice. After mastering the writing craft, voice isn’t found by looking inwards with some advanced form of navel-gazing. Instead, it’s found by outward engagement with the world....
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy
My Stanley coffee thermos (see photo), which I have used every day for the past several years, has started to breakdown internally. It has served its purpose well, but it’s now time to throw it away. Several of my beliefs are just like that. It’s time to move...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
Recognizing that my mentors are all one-way, fantasy relationships, I have decided to add one more, No. 7: the Seattle-based, prolific writer and philosopher Charles Johnson! Paraphasing Dorothy Boyd from the movie Jerry Maguire: You had me at “writing is a way of...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy, RAVEN, Writing
There are quite a few sub-genres of thrillers: Psychological thriller.Action thriller.Crime thriller.Political thriller.Mystery thriller.Spy thriller.Legal thriller.Science fiction thriller.Techno-thriller. I wonder of there is room for one more? How about a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy, RAVEN
I’ve recently been researching a rare neurological condition called synesthesia, which is defined as “a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.” The most...
