Still Scary Decades Later

Do you ever do something you know you shouldn’t? It’s not productive, healthy, or even sanity-inducing. But you do it anyway. The other night I was channel-surfing and came upon “The Shining.” Don’t go there, I warned myself. But alas, I started viewing and within minutes, was hiding behind a throw pillow. Here are 5 […]

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The Night of the Haunted… Car?

Yes, cars can be spooky. At least mine was, parked in our garage one strange October night. This time of year, it’s easy to picture witches and goblins flying by the window or tapping you on the shoulder, but being unnerved by your automobile? That night my youngest son Paul left to get something from […]

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I Knew Salem Might Be Spooky… But This Was Ridiculous

  It seemed like the perfect place for Mom and me to spend two nights in historic Salem, Massachusetts—a large yellow colonial house built in 1834, graceful and majestic. We had booked into the town’s inn, but there was an overflow, so we ended up staying in one of their annexes, this yellow house a […]

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