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No more bumps in the night ...

10/22/2018

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I grew up in a haunted house in a middle class neighborhood.  It may have been that the Ouija board I unfortunately played with as a kid that attracted “something,” or maybe the murderer next door.

Something was not quite right with our house.  An unaccountable voice calling for “Maria” from our vacant side yard, and a baby crying in the night in our neighbor's home though they had no baby.

It was not until I inherited an old full-length mirror from my grandmother that strange things became obvious soon after it was hung in my bedroom, and were witnessed by many other people.

Years later, my husband and I moved into a converted attic apartment.  It wasn’t just the green goo on the floor of our closet that was odd. We experienced many, eerie,  unexplainable things there.

Even so, I don’t believe in ghosts.  I don’t believe that my grandmother came through that mirror to terrorize me every night.  I do, however, believe that there are unseen, unknown forces at work.

British actor Timothy Spall, who played Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter movies said, “I've never seen a poltergeist, but I do believe there is more than what we see, that there is more than just this.”

Then, during our second overnight stay in the Queen Mary Hotel I discovered something wonderful.  I could turn off my sensitivity to the eerie happenings that had plagued me there already.

I’ve written about my many bizarre encounters over the years, which were published in a now defunct British blog, and this is the very last time I plan to write about this subject.  It creeps me out.

So, as is my habit this time of year, I deck the house in Autumn hues, burn pumpkin scented candles, and am relish in all of the lovely seasonal aspects of Fall, but not Halloween.  It’s my sore spot.

  Happy Autumn!


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My favorite cozy blanket is ...

10/11/2018

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I grew up in a home full of readers.  In our “back room” there were shelves and shelves brimming with all sorts of books from floor to ceiling.  We never called it The Library. It was the “back room.”

My dad was an avid reader even though he’d left school in the sixth grade.  I have no idea where he got all of those books, but I could pick any book anytime to read, and I ingested  poetry.

I, too, have a room full of books, all sorts of books.  Once or twice my husband has suggested that we might have too many volumes on our many shelves, and I cringed and I was like “no way!”

And then one day it hit me; my favorite cozy blanket is a room full of books.  I suppose that they are my security blanket, for without them a room is just a room no matter its use, its size or its decor.    

Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who lived between 106 BC and 43 BC, had a profound influence on Prose, the Latin language, and later European languages.

It was Cicero who said that, “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”  I heartily agree, and I am delighted that such a man as Cicero so eloquently and succinctly spoke my very thoughts.

   









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    About the author:

    I've written many poems over the years.  This blog is a preview of my books: Echoes, Neo-Victorian Poetry (April 2013), Echoes ll, More Neo-Victorian Poetry (May 2014), Echoes lll, Even More Neo-Victorian Poetry, (August 2016), A Compilation of Echoes. (September 2016), and When None Command (April 13, 2019)

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