There's is a distinct smell when you walk into an old falling-down house. Mine didn't have that. Two weeks, they said, to renovate the entire house. I was thrilled! I even said to use an extra week to make sure everything gets done right. Well, here we are almost two months into construction but I finally see the end of the tunnel.







At least my house isn't haunted and we didn't find any kind of skeletons hiding behind walls, but old houses contain stories sometimes unimaginable even to a writer. I've been in houses made out of mud and clay as well as rocks, and while creepy looking, there's nothing within their walls, or is there?

We talk a lot about hauntings, apparitions, ghosts people can see. Perhaps I even told you about the two girls my husband and I saw every so often in our front yard, thinking they were the neighbor's kids, just to find out that no one had lived next to us. The presence of something in our old apartment that I was never able to explain. You're mind takes such things with a grain of salt sometimes. You see it, feel it, know it's there, yet you treat it as if it was always part of your life until it isn't. Even after, when you look back and think on it, it feel like it was all in your head. A mind full of imagination. No harm, no foul.

Is it our acceptance of such things that makes the extraordinary ordinary or is there more to it?

Most of us go about our day doing things we always do; work, kids, bills, a few extracurricular activities, something fun to change the daily routine. So when we experience something out of the norm, how come it's accepted so easily? Why are we not impressed? Shocked? Shaken to the core?

Perhaps, our minds look for an explanation as to why something is in order to make it simpler on us, to turn it into something ordinary, something we won't fear. If that is the case, then writing about such things has become harder than ever before. There might not be anything hiding behind door #1 and you feel safe cocooned between the walls of your house, looking out. However, there is a creature lurking in the dark devouring your livestock in the most horrific manner possible while you sleep. Of course, your mind will find a reasonable explanation for that as well so you can continue sleeping peacefully.


'til next time!