The sometimes surprising concept that the harder you try to do something, the less likely you are to achieve it. In fact, the harder you try, the more likely it becomes that you will fail. For example, the harder you try to remember a person’s phone number the more likely it is that you will fail to do so.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Alice Markham-Cantor, author of the new Once & Future Witch Hunt.
My 9x-great-grandmother, Martha Carrier, was hanged in the Salem witch trials. She wasn't a witch. She wasn't an herbalist or a...