Welcome to my stop on the ParaGoddess Blog Hop. Thank you to JoLynne Valerie for inviting me.
“You’re a witch!”
Ummm, maybe not the best way to start a palm reading at a
friend’s birthday party in a backyard. I shuffled in my seat, and glanced
around to see if anyone else had heard the exclamation.
“And that’s why no one
understands you …”
OK, I have to admit that throughout my life, I’ve had some,
ah, let’s call them extrasensory powers. Dreams that come true. Sensing of
spirits. Intuition of moods. As a teen, I did exercises to tap into the energy,
and never felt alone. The creepy-crawling feeling of being watched, or walking
into a visually empty room and knowing something else was there freaked me out,
so I locked it down. Oh, it was still there, I just didn’t let myself be as
open to it.
The years passed, and then I had children. What to do when
your 3-year-old tells you that there’s a “ghost in my room?” I couldn’t deny
the occurrence, especially when our next-door neighbor had recently overdosed
on prescription pain meds and alcohol, after getting hurt at work, and
suddenly, she was hearing “Paul” outside. (I swear before that happened, she
didn’t know his name.)
One night when she screamed continuously, I brought over my
step-grandmother. I told her to do “whatever was necessary.” She blessed the house
with holy water from three Catholic churches, and sprinkled it on the ground
between our two homes. Everything stopped after that.
Since then, I’ve been more open. I write within the
paranormal realm because I believe that there is so much more out there, and
it’s difficult to discount what we don’t know, for sure. At conferences such as
Authors After Dark, I’ll pull out my Runes and do readings. For the most part,
the subject finds a meaningful connection with their question.
Tell me: How
about you? Do you believe in things that go bump in the night? Do you have a
spooky story to share?
Leave a comment, and a valid email address, and you’ll be
entered into a contest for a virtual reading with me, and an electronic copy of
your choice of one of my books. The winner will be chosen at the end of the
tour, Sat. Nov. 1.
Thanks for stopping by.
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