It has been a busy time, so I regret having neglected this blog, but hopefully it’s not becoming a permanent thing! Working on final details with the book (which is still coming out this fall… September), travels, other little side projects here and there… all these things have distracted me. Life has distracted me.

Last weekend, I tagged along with SIGHT of Ohio to an event at Akron’s Civic Theatre. I presented the history for a paranormal investigation, opened to the public. It was a good turnout and I enjoyed myself… but with fielding so many questions and doing so many things, I didn’t have much chance to explore for myself. That’s the downside of being involved behind the scenes at an event: you can’t participate. Still, I usually don’t mind that. Sometimes, I want to sit back and enjoy a nice ghost walk or presentation, but there are times I’d rather be involved in the production itself and left out of the details.

In just a few hours, I’m leaving for Ottawa for three weeks, with a brief stay in Montreal thrown in for good measure. It won’t all be a vacation, but it’ll be an adventure. And, time and energy permitting, I will be blogging from there this time! But to spare you all the boredom of merely reading about these places and things to do, I’m thinking I just might give video blogging a try. So if all goes well, expect a taste of haunted Ottawa… perhaps even a brief Montreal clip too.

Otherwise, I’ll be back in mid-August… hopefully with updates and new information!

Overall, it was a fun night of revisiting the past and old haunts. Along our sojourn through Akron, I saw many old faces and caught up with several people. Some haven’t changed, others have gone through serious overhauls. For old time sake, we stopped at a nite club for a short time. As we were getting ready to leave, Steve stopped to chat with the owner. Perfect timing; I ran into another friend from the more recent past (Dan) and had a chance to catch up briefly, yell at him for reading emails but never replying, and exchange a few hugs.

I am a bit of a nightowl, but nothing really prepared me for being out that late. It was after 4:00 AM when I made it home and crawled into bed. I was supposed to go out last night late and meet up with a few other ghosts of my past, but my stomach just wasn’t in the mood. I was a walking billboard for Pepto Bismol. I still feel quazi-sick, but I’m not going to let that cancel any plans for a second day in a row. As long as my nose stops running and my stomach isn’t tied in knots, I should fair well.

Tonight’s jaunt will be to Cleveland. I’m assuming dinner, drinks, and a show, but I’ll find out for sure what’s happening a little later this afternoon. Meanwhile, I have a bit of catching up to do with a few odds and ends. And then I could use a little down time before getting wrapped up in a few other things later in the week. March has been flying by… some of it, I’ll be gllad to be done with while the other, more enjoyable things will be over before I know it.