Books Under the Blanket (with a flashlight)

When I was a kid, we knew the vast majority of the neighbors on our dead end street. The Morris family lived next door. The Andersons lived across the street. The Moyers family lived next to the Andersons until the Bradfords moved in. The Vegetables lived next to them (and…

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…