I’m sitting in my attic office with the window air conditioning going full-blast and a small box fan blowing at me too. My sweet, devoted dog (who refuses to go downstairs where it’s cooler) is laying in front of the air conditioner, soaking up as much cool as he can. The temperature outside is a…
Category: Freaky Friday
The Fairmont Hotel, Deadwood, South Dakota
As many of you know, I was in Deadwood, South Dakota last weekend at the Ann Charles Fan Party. Ann invited me to be a featured author and I eagerly accepted. We arrived on Thursday night and on Friday morning, we had a little time (after I autographed 150 posters) to explore the area. Our…
The Thin Blue Line
I have a great deal of admiration and gratitude for police officers and their families. These are men and women who leave their homes every day to protect us, and they never know if they are going to come home or not. I’ve had the honor of receiving a number of emails from officers or…
The Corner House
A few weeks ago, I received a lovely note from a new reader, who also happens to be an author too. In her note, she asked me if I really had a ghost in my house and then admitted that she’d only seen and heard one ghost in her life. Amy Heyman, from Sheybogan, Wisconsin…
Grandma’s Visit
During the past few weeks, I’ve met some very interesting authors who have great stories to share- so I’ve invited them to guest blog. I met David Hatton through my Twitter account. David is from Lancashire, England. He spent a year living in Chicago before traveling across America; his second home. He released his first…
Long-Distance Call from Heaven
Claire Gem is an award-winning author of supernatural suspense, contemporary romance, and women’s fiction. She not only loves exploring the paranormal, but she also holds a certificate in Parapsychology from Duke University’s Rhine Research Center. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Lesley University. I asked Claire if she’s like to share a personal…
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
Okay, just by reading the title of this Freaky Friday, you know that this is not going to be one of those light-hearted blogs. According to their website, The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (aka the Weston State Hospital) served as a sanctuary for the mentally ill beginning in the mid-1880s. It is the largest hand-cut stone…
Yūrei Banashi – Japanese Ghost Stories
Last week, as I was flipping through the Internet looking for information on all of the storms and flooding we’ve been having, I stumbled upon a YouTube video taken of a tsunami crashing up onto the shores of Japan. The video was taken from a tall, industrial building, not far from the shore and the…
Our Best Friends
One of my freakiest up-close-and-personal encounters with an apparition was when I was working through the night in my attic office. It was about four in the morning and my beloved Riley, a Golden Retriever/Bernese Mountain Dog mix, looked up from the couch he was resting on, glanced over to the attic stairs and wagged…
Nurses – Part 2
As most of you know, I spent some quality time at a hospital in Fort Worth earlier this week welcoming a new grandson to our family. There is no nursery, so the newborn “rooms-in” with the mom. So, I got to “room-in” with mom and baby, and “dance” with little Noah while his mom got…