Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. I hope you'll check out all the posts: y...

    Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. I hope you'll check out all the posts:...

Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. I hope you'll check out all the posts: you...

Welcome to the first Wednesday of the month. You know what that means! It's time to let our insecurities hang out. Yep, it's the Ins...

 Normally, it's pretty easy for me to build up a head of steam and some excitement about Christmas. What's not to like? Pretty light...

My first husband didn't believe me when it came to my headaches. I guess he thought I was exaggerating to get out doing things I didn...

We had a school holiday on Monday for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. There are only a few Americans who stand high enough in our country...

Time, it seems, has sped faster with each year of my life. Most days are so stuffed that at the end, I fall onto the sofa feeling like I...

Today I'm playing along with a blog hop: The Storytime Blog Hop and finishing my 31 Days of Halloween. Participants are aske...

La Llorona is not a story I grew up with, but one I learned as an adult. She's a creature of Latin American folklore, a ghost or demo...

Of all of Halloween's creatures, my favorite is probably the werewolf. Cheesy or terrifying, I love the Jekyll and Hyde torment of a ...

In so many spooky scenarios, it's the sounds that get you going, make you nervous and edgy. Footsteps echoing in empty spaces. Distan...

What is it about masks? Whether they're sitting on tables, hanging on walls, or covering someone's face, they are so inherently c...

I didn't grow up on zombie movies like some folks did. My family didn't go in for Romero films and I was still only 14 when the f...

Shirley Jackson should be some kind of patron saint of Halloween. She wrote some of the horror stories that haunt me the most deeply. She...

I've been on a classic literature journey for the past four or five years, reading all those books I've always meant to read and ...

Traditionally, ghosts come out at night. Maybe they like the quiet, or they are just easier to see when the light is less glaring. But I ...

When you have a good imagination, shadows can be dangerous. Your mind can turn them into monsters, serial killers, demons, and any number...

Once my sister and I went to see a terrible monster movie together. It was SOOOOO predictable that it wasn't even scary. But you know...

I didn't know what urban legends were the first time I heard one. It was at a slumber party and I really thought my friend knew a guy...