I HAVE BEEN CHECKING EVERY DAY SINCE IT WAS OCTOBER YESSSSSSSSSSSS

This happened in November last year. The only positive I have been able to take away from it is that I finally have something for this story contest, because I definitely cannot afford to move!

When I was a kid, my parents were thinking about moving us from a big city to a nearby more rural state, to save money, be near better schools, and be closer to my mom’s brother. So one day, we made the few hour drive north as a family to look at a house my mom had found in a small town near my uncle. It was a…

LOL girl, that ghost is flirting with your man! Rude! 

backstory: the school I work at in Vancouver, BC is being seismically upgraded, as are many because many of the schools built in VSB are gaining on 100 years old. In March (2020), before spring break, we all tirelessly packed up our entire classrooms in boxes to be moved over Spring Break to our ‘new school’ for the…

I have a lot of scary stories, but I wouldn’t at all classify this as a ghost story. This was scary in the moment, but looking back on it, it was mostly just very weird. Wondering if ya’ll have any insight into what exactly this was.

There’s something downstairs.

When I was 14 I worked in a doll shop on the first floor of an old colonial house.

I must confess up front this is not particularly scary - but it is definitely ghostly. It just involves my father - the sweetest man ever - so how scary is that?! Lol. I grew up in the country on a farm with horses. Since we were so remote, and the driveway to my childhood home so long, my parents had installed a…

What’s In the Bucket?

This happened to me a few years ago, and I still get chills every time I think about it.

GIMME THE FEAR

Welp, there goes any chance I had at productivity for today. 

I call it my Becky tattoo. It says jiu jitsu

Mine would be: 

Mine would be: 

This:

A sports bra. It’s a “ban the bounce” design, and it works, so it’s good in that sense, but putting it on? It’s a racer back, but also has a band with hook and eye closures. So you have to put it over your head first, without tangling the straps, then smoosh everything in, then hook it closed behind you. I’m not good…

My father died on Thanksgiving Day twenty years ago. Thanksgiving dinner didn’t happen that year, and neither did Christmas. We were very close and it was very traumatizing.

Mushroom season

FUCK YES I would buy Ina Garten’s memoir.  Where the hell do I get on the waiting list?