Living in the Middle East, I didn’t have a lot of English books to choose from as a kid, and for some reason or another I ended up with titles like “Weird Crap You Are Better Off Not Reading About”, “True Horror Stories”, “Haunted Houses”,...

Phobias are a funny thing.  In college, I met someone who feared nothing more than beans.  Just looking at a picture of a pinto bean caused him to start gagging. I thought it was all a joke at first, but after years of going to every exteme to avoid the rogue legume , I understood that this...