{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"The Dopamine Diaries","home_page_url":"https://thedopaminediaries.com","description":"The Dopamine Diaries","author":{"name":"The Dopamine Diaries"},"items":[{"id":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/exploring-the-dopamine-diaries-1","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/getty/1791203312\"/><p>Enter a Realm of Intrigue and Mystery</p>","url":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/exploring-the-dopamine-diaries-1","title":"Exploring The Dopamine Diaries","summary":"Enter a Realm of Intrigue and Mystery","date_modified":"2026-08-26T21:55:36Z"},{"id":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/happy-birthday-to-my-missing-son","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/b8bb97ee-ad32-4c95-b554-046d8745f065/Adam%20November%202017.jpg\"/><p>Today is my oldest son's birthday. He left eleven years ago, and today he is forty years old.</p>","url":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/happy-birthday-to-my-missing-son","title":"Happy Birthday To My Missing Son","summary":"Today is my oldest son's birthday. He left eleven years ago, and today he is forty years old.","date_modified":"2026-06-23T19:15:27Z"},{"id":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/the-matchbook-girl","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/stock/118639\"/><p>The past fifteen years have been a long journey. It is a lifetime and a minute. Time moves in a wave when some moments last hours, and other moments speed past me like stock cars on a race track.</p>","url":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/the-matchbook-girl","title":"The Matchbook Girl","summary":"The past fifteen years have been a long journey. It is a lifetime and a minute. Time moves in a wave when some moments last hours, and other moments speed past me like stock cars on a race track.","date_modified":"2026-06-22T20:22:49Z"},{"id":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/ray-garton","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/b8bb97ee-ad32-4c95-b554-046d8745f065/Image%202.jpeg\"/><p>Men in Horror: RAY GARTON</p>","url":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/ray-garton","title":"Ray Garton","summary":"Men in Horror: RAY GARTON","date_modified":"2026-06-16T22:03:05Z"},{"id":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/author-and-publisher-interviews-are-back","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/stock/D119Ge4\"/><p>Years ago, when I was brand new to the horror writing world I did several interviews to promote Indie authors. This was something I wanted to continue, but writing is a full time job.</p>","url":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/author-and-publisher-interviews-are-back","title":"Author and Publisher Interviews are Back!","summary":"Years ago, when I was brand new to the horror writing world I did several interviews to promote Indie authors. This was something I wanted to continue, but writing is a full time job.","date_modified":"2026-06-16T20:59:06Z"},{"id":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/how-grief-builds-for-adhd","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/stock/4921\"/><p>I have three dogs, Dante, a 2 year old Boston Terrier, Tarot, a 14 year old Miniature Schnauzer, and Dharma, a Yorkie, who passed on Thursday, June 11, 2026. She would have been 15 next month.</p>","url":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/how-grief-builds-for-adhd","title":" How Grief Builds for ADHD","summary":"I have three dogs, Dante, a 2 year old Boston Terrier, Tarot, a 14 year old Miniature Schnauzer, and Dharma, a Yorkie, who passed on Thursday, June 11, 2026. She would have been 15 next month.","date_modified":"2026-06-15T19:50:19Z"},{"id":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/why-horror-is-cathartic-and-helps-heal","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/stock/o3ONYgQ\"/><p>Horror has a bad reputation. It's the Bad Girl in the town, the one you don't marry or take home to mama, the type your mother told you to stay away from because she will influence you into the occult, satanism, and you ...</p>","url":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/why-horror-is-cathartic-and-helps-heal","title":"Why Horror is Cathartic and Helps Heal ","summary":"Horror has a bad reputation. 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As the title states, this will be a book that looks at several topics that were discussed in other publications, but not the way this work will be l...</p>","url":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/amittyville-hoax-or-horror","title":"Amittyville: Hoax or Horror","summary":"This is what I am working on over the next year, September 2024 - 2025. As the title states, this will be a book that looks at several topics that were discussed in other publications, but not the way this work will be l...","date_modified":"2024-09-15T21:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/life-lived","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/stock/110466\"/><p>Life, I think, is meant to be lived backwards. Like Dorian Gray, we are meant to come into this world, old, wisened, knowledgeable, with courage and wisdom, and then meander down through the years with tepid steps, and w...</p>","url":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/life-lived","title":"Life, Lived","summary":"Life, I think, is meant to be lived backwards. Like Dorian Gray, we are meant to come into this world, old, wisened, knowledgeable, with courage and wisdom, and then meander down through the years with tepid steps, and w...","date_modified":"2024-07-27T21:40:04Z"},{"id":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/welcome-to-blog-1","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/stock/Y8Da5pD\"/><p>Writing is a craft, a journey, a skill, a testament of faith and persistence, tenacity, bad judgement and a search for truth or existence.</p>","url":"https://thedopaminediaries.com/author-interviews/f/welcome-to-blog-1","title":"Welcome to Blog #1","summary":"Writing is a craft, a journey, a skill, a testament of faith and persistence, tenacity, bad judgement and a search for truth or existence.","date_modified":"2024-07-27T21:00:33Z"}]}