This is the topic I’ve been waiting for! I thought I was the only one! I’m prone to stress-related illness and my digestive system went haywire exactly a week before Election Day. Pain from my thighs to my eyeballs, and the cherry on top, constipation. I spent 3 days in bed with a heating pad wishing I’d left some…

I don’t think Trump’s election is the death knell of American democracy. I think it’s the end of optimism, though, as well as a catapult 60 years into the past. We are where we were in the early 1950s, before the civil rights movement and the women’s movement. Back in the days of McCarthyism. We can communicate and…

With (verbal) diarrhea.

One day during that trip to Mexico I heard how my great-grandmother (dead since 1955) had appeared in the patio, along with the women hanging out the wash (a scene from, say, the 1920s). I left the room, walked out to the patio, and said, “I know you’re out there, but please just don’t appear to me.” I guess it wasn’t…

Okay, I have a positive Ouija story! Years and years ago my father, sister and I spent the holidays in Mexico with my father’s cousins in the Old Family Hacienda. It was haunted, of course, by the ghost of El Dulcero (The Candyman) who was killed for his buried treasure ... but I digress.

I haven’t actually seen a ghost but a long time ago I just accepted that some of my ancestors are still around ... and I’ve consciously asked them not to scare me like they’ve scared other people.