Mrs. Crouch and I have been saving this afternoon for several weeks now for our date with Brandon, a video producer from Fox13 News in Seattle. He emailed that he was working on a story for a Halloween special about haunted places in Washington...
So after all my F'n'B (Fuss and Bother) about the Shoalwater Bay Yacht Club Sign at the Taylor Hotel building in Ocean Park... it has totally disappeared. Gone! I did a drive-by today to check it out and ... not a trace. But their website is...
You can be sure that the first thing I asked Cuzzin Ralph when he came down to breakfast this morning was whether or not the Crouches had made themselves known. "Well..." was his hesitant response, "maybe." It seems that when Ralph (who is a big...
...just blame the supply chain. At least that's what I think is happening these days. It doesn't seem to matter what the item is or whether it is slow in arriving, late, unobtainable, not in stock, back-ordered or just not...
Well, wouldn't you know it? The spiffy free shuttle service from my Residence to Nyel's Home-Away-From-Home doesn't operate on the weekends! So annoying! It's not like I don't have wheels available seven stories below me in the parking garage. ...
I am continually amazed at how many "fans" and "followers" our resident ghost, Mrs. Crouch, has! She's really become a sort of celebrity in her own right. Who'da thunk it? What is especially intriguing to me is that many of those who mention her...
Yesterday afternoon, after a tiring bout of shopping and schlepping, we came home to find that naughty Mrs. C. had been undressing the Christmas tree. Or maybe she was just foolin' around. It's always hard to tell. Quite a bit of tinsel and two...
It really is nuts-making. Now that I am actually gathering together some final bits and pieces of things to take up to Ed Nolan at the Washington State Research Center, I cannot find Papa's diary -- the one written when he was sixteen in 1892/93. ...
I don't know about other authors, but I have to say that it's not very often that I get feedback, and certainly not positive feedback, on a book or on anything else I've written. If book sales are good, I just have to assume... and you know the...
And Larry Murante, too! We'll be on Carol Newman's "ARTS Live and Local" show -- although we won't be exactly "live." You'll hear Larry singing "The Ballad of Mrs. Crouch" through the magic of recorded sound* and Carol and I will be coming to you...
At seven this morning I was talking on the telephone to Jim Harold, host of the "Ghost Insight" podcast (among many others). He was interviewing me about Mrs. Crouch -- a very one-sided conversation and weird in the extreme. In Mr. Harold's...
I don't know about you, but when I receive just a little bit of information about something -- especially if it's not in the Good News Department -- I wonder. Sometimes I even stew about it. Today was one of those days because of one of those...