Given that today is Friday the 13th, and in all my cleaning and book cataloging I came across some of my old notes about different wive's tales and superstitions. Many of these are ones I used in my youth as they were fun games for nearly-teenage age groups of girls as we tried to predict how many children we would have or who we would marry. ( ( Read more... )

Whenever I step out into the big bad world, I always seem to come back home with strange stories. And questions. It must either be something about me or it says something about the people who live in Portland. I'm leaning towards the latter ( Read more... )