Author: J.A. Summa

So I’ve recently acquired a mini spirit box and a digital recorder. I’ve stumbled across some country cemeteries and frankly, some weird spots in the roads that give me the creeps. So I’ve been studying in real life how paranormal investigators use the tools. In fiction I’ve been trying to develop a bit of a […]

So I may no longer be a part of a university community, no longer with a ticket to the ‘ivory tower’ that is usually inhabited by academics, but I’m in the Midwest and I’m passing judgement on the crap that’s going on on the east and west coasts. The shit show that is our political […]

Thought Catalog lists 99 writers who were drunks or addicts or both. The more I try to write the more I begin to understand. It’s frustrating to not be able to put your images on the page to your satisfaction. At least I know I’m in good company. F. Scott Fitzgerald* Ernest Hemingway* Dorothy Parker […]

I wonder, when mom died, was she standing next to her body when I woke up and saw her. I always sort of imagine, when someone passes, they step out of their skin suit and look around for the next stage of things. It’s a very Terry Pratchett way of death I suppose…but would she […]

Ok the new emphasis on plant based food over real beef….how much better is it for you if, in order to make it taste good, they cover it in salt?

I watched my mother research our family tree as I grew up, every scrap of paper and record was important to document and record. She’d track everything from grave sites to hobbies to diary entries etc etc. On my walls are oil paintings and other art done by great great something or the others. The […]

What I wouldn’t give to be able to draw….graphic novel style…I have images in my head that I can’t get in front of me on my photo editing screen, and they don’t work trying to describe them in words. Occasionally I can puzzle some bits of images together to make something close-ish but it still […]