We were dining at a Chinese restaurant last year when our hostess joyously mentioned she had attended her first Thanksgiving dinner after living in the U.S.A. for over 18 years. Parents of her daughter’s friend had extended the invitation for the traditional turkey and all the trimmings. I was happy she was thrilled to experience…
Besides showing off Pikes Peak, the city of Manitou Springs, Colorado, has some quirky attractions to draw in tourists. One is the Emma Crawford coffin race/festival, which includes a Halloween parade. For the race, about 50 teams–four pallbearers each–push coffins on wheels that carry ghostly Emmas. The real Emma Crawford, a spiritualist, died in 1891 in Manitou…
C.S. Boyll note: William J. Petersen has been a longtime editor and journalist, writing over 30 books including one of my favorites: 25 Surprising Marriages: How Great Christians Struggled to Make Their Marriages Work. Some of his recent work (also, thumbs up) is a novella series, The Octogenarian Sleuth, inspired by his retirement community and bylined…