I write about ghosts, so people often ask me if I believe in them. Of course I believe in ghosts. My real life experience with them is limited, I think, because I want it to be. Even though the one compelling experience I’ve had was pleasant and benign—a smiling, elderly man in a rumpled …Read More

The status of an interesting woman I follow on Twitter recently posited, “What’s your most surprising desire?” I was getting ready to start my evening chores (watering the garden, kitty maintenance, closing the driveway gate), but the question pulled me up short. I felt compelled to go to the front window–one of my favorite thinking …Read More