It’s the season of ghosty sideshows. Set spirits free instead.

This time of year it becomes commonplace to be in the ghost business. Libraries and museums and parks and entrepreneurs promote their haunted tours and activities to capitalize on Halloween curiosity and thrill. It’s ok. Most people just don’t understand. Spirits who remain on the Earth plane after death are lost, stuck in the partial…

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Fear not, Pumpkin.

I mentored an Afghan newcomer last year. One fall day when we met, she was visibly upset. When I asked her why, she said, “There are monsters everywhere! My neighbors have dead people on their grass and they scream whenever someone walks by. It is so scary!”  I had never looked at American Halloween through…

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How are you?

When I went, I went cold turkey. Five years ago I grew so jaded by the riptides of negativity and algorithmic platters of content that I quit social media altogether. I closed all my accounts and was happy about it. Then came coronavirus when we all found ourselves in a sort of socio-cultural aspic—dampened, suspended,…

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