I’m not going to tell you that I am totally comfortable with the ghost that resides in my home. I accept it, but sometimes, the…

My mother suffers from an enlarged heart, along with several blockages. Due to the poor condition of her heart, after suffering three heart attacks and…

When my brothers (all three older than me) and I were much younger, we lived for several years with my grandparents. ( It is the…

In the early 1950’s, the luxury of owning a television set was not well known by many local residents. So when a rather affluent relative…

Another episode in the Walking Ghost epic involves a group of young men varying in ages from mid-teen to early thirties, all residents of the…

A few years ago, before my father’s death, he was a frequent patient at a nearby hospital. On one such occasion, my mother and I…

The road across the mountain at Hyders Gap is a narrow, one lane affair, with many switch-back curves, sharp drop offs, and blind spots. It…

While in college, I worked as a Residency Assistant on the third floor of the dorm in which I stayed. My job was simple- maintain…

The nature of my father's job in 1968 necessitated that we move, as a temporary measure, to Roanoke, Virginia. We lived in a small mobile…

While in college, one of the required courses in my major was a Speech class. As one of the class requirements, each student had to…