In celebration of the Orionid meteor showers and this wonderful season – I’m re-releasing a short story I wrote in 2011 called Orion’s Moon. If you bought the Every Witch Way You Can Anthology – then you’ve already read this. But, if you haven’t, enjoy!!! It’s a paranormal romance with a little witchcraft, a little…
Your Mawmaw would have loved you
I often think that as I rock one of my three grandchildren. I never met anyone so in love with their grandchildren than my kids’ Mawmaw. Mawmaw was born in Mississippi and lived there for most of her life, with brief stops in Louisiana and Illinois. She had beautiful blue eyes, a happy smile, and…
Close the Closet Door
This week’s Freaky Friday is “ghost-written” 🙂 by my very own sister – Maureen Tan.  It freaked me out!  I hope you enjoy it too!!! As much as I hate to admit (because it sounds silly, doesn’t it?) I can’t fall asleep in my bedroom if the closet door is open. It’s not like I…
Fall Bucket List
We got our first frost warning last night. Â So it’s time to fire up the wood stove, heat up the hot chocolate and pull out the fall bucket list. These are some of the things I love to do when the weather gets crisp and the leaves turn gold and red. What would you add…
More Gettysburg
Several years ago, I had the distinct pleasure to speak at the Illinois Paranormal Society Annual Conference. I met quite a few very interesting people, and I’ll share some of their stories in later Freaky Fridays, but today I wanted to share one of the stories told by their keynote speaker, Mark Nesbitt. The cool…
FREE!!! Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern 1
I released my first “Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern” two years ago today. And as an anniversary gift – Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern 1 will be FREE starting tomorrow (Saturday, October 1st) through October 5th. This is the perfect time to get your friends hooked. 🙂 Here’s a here’s a link to get…
My House is Haunted
I asked my good friend Ophelia Julien to share one of her own ghost stories for Freaky Friday. Enjoy! He began dating her during fall term of their Freshman year in college. Neither he nor she was looking for a serious or exclusive relationship at the time, so they were content with the occasional date….
Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern
What could be better than one edition of Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern? How about all three boxed together for your Halloween enjoyment? 🙂 If you haven’t read the first two years of Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern, this is a great opportunity to get all three years at a discount price. Seventeen spooky stories…
Penny Candy
It was a dark Halloween night. A cold drizzle soaked the leaf-covered sidewalks and extinguished jack-o-lanterns that perched on porch railings and steps, their cold, dark, empty faces even more frightening than their candled-glowing ones from earlier that night. The year was 1964 and this Chicago neighborhood was a combination of single-family homes, apartment buildings and,…
Gettysburg’s Legacy
The Civil War battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was a turning point in the war and the war’s bloodiest battle with about 10,000 men killed within the space of three days. I’ve traveled to Gettysburg a few times and it’s a solemn place. It’s not surprising that there are a multitude of ghost stories from the…