Books Under the Blanket (with a flashlight)

We’ve all heard stories about babies who were switched at birth. When I was younger, it was obvious that I was very different from my siblings, so that was the joke in our family. But I have heard the story of the night I was born too many times in…

Chicagoland is a great place to looks for ghosts and ghost stories—the site of the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, the site of the SS Eastland disaster on the Chicago River, the Drake Hotel, Hull House. In fact, there are so many ghost stories in and around Chicago that there is…

I always knew I wanted to be a mom. I love kids, so from my teenage years on, I have found ways to spend time with them. I was a babysitter as a teenager, a camp counselor and a Girl Scout Leader as an adult, a chaperone for church mission…