After Halloween

I love Halloween. It’s one of my favorite holidays. And, yet, I dread it too. For varying reasons, but the main one being: candy. It’s five days after Halloween, and I still have enough candy for a horde of children. We overbought, thinking we’d have...

A ghost or my imagination?

This post is part of Rhobin Lee‘s monthly Round Robin Blog Hop. This month’s theme is fittingly “paranormal.” Enjoy! I was fifteen and home alone. Janna was out somewhere, my other siblings had long since moved out, and my parents were at a...

Life After Death

Do you believe in life after death? I do. I always have. I couldn’t believe that, when someone dies, the essence of who they are just disappears into nothingness. To me, this cannot be true. I believe that those who have passed do communicate with us, stay...

Cleaning Out

In recent weeks, I’ve had this overwhelming urge to clean. It’s very rare for me to have such a strong urge that I actually move on it. Usually, there is so much to do that I have higher priorities, but I just couldn’t stop myself anymore. So, I...

When the cats away…

Or, more appropriately, when the child is away. Yup. Lily is going with one of her friends somewhere overnight. There was a time when Lily wouldn’t do this. She needed Mom to help her fall asleep. Part of me is sad. I mean, she’s growing up. (Way too...

The End of an Era

Sometimes an end can signal a beginning. This month, or maybe it was the end of August when it happened, Yahoo switched the groups I own to their Neo version. Quite frankly, it sucks. Not only is it hard to navigate, but it ate all of our databases and files in our...