What Ghosts Taught Me

I don't believe in ghosts.

That's something I can say with conviction. It's a solid fact for me. True. And yet...I also know that there have been exceptions in my life – times when I almost believed – when voices whispered just beyond the edge of my hearing in the middle of a known "haunted" cottage, a prescient chill that felt like a touch right through layers of clothing and comforters that gave no comfort at all, and one night long ago when I was driving home late.

I'd been at my boyfriend's...