Author: J.A. Summa

It’s the oddest memories…a search of ‘The Haunted Mansion’ on audibe music brings up not the soundtrack of the film, but the sounds of an old vinyl record I had when I was a kid. The tale of a pair of teens staggering into an old, seemingly abandoned house, during a rainstorm and being taken […]

I can’t recall if I’ve explained this before, but author Neil Gaiman, in his Masterclass, said that using a brain dump is a good way to see what stories might be floating around in one’s head. He suggests writing….everything you can think of…and seeing what develops. Sort of a literary darkroom…it remind me of watching […]

I don’t remember how old I was when I realized my mom seemed to be obsessed with her family history. She was a genealogist besides being a wife and mother of two. Before she passed away, when I was 48 years old, we’d amassed a pretty interesting collection of pictures, and narratives of our ancestors. […]

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