”She left her long, white, frosted fingernails” is how the 1968 Class Will of Windsor Locks High School read. Now 57 years after, I wish to revisit those historical pages of the one sided Main Street and change that dialogue with FILED AWAY, MY NAIL ENCOUNTERS. How did a kid from immigrant parents go from being a shade tobacco picker in the Connecticut River Valley fields to shaping not only the nails of rich and famous but to paranormal experiences in the Land of Enchantment? In the early nineties in Santa Fe, NM, Astrologer, Ariel Guttman, author of Venus Rising Star, director and founder of Sophia Venus, gifted me a reading of my chart. She pointed to my chart to show me that my life journey late in life would bring me to writing about this. There was no better time than after cancer, Covid and closure than to start my blog with the hopes it would become a book. So, here it begins.

I was always attracted to Western esotericism. By my early 40s after a trip to Costa Rica I was drawn into the Wicca practices. I had always been a follower of Astrology. Born March 18, I shared my birth with folks like Edgar Cayce,an American clairvoyant. Later I would come to see clearly why but at a young age, I didn’t understand why, I just knew. I had grown up in a household where after finishing a cup , one had their tea leaves read. My Mum had an 4 o’clock afternoon tea ritual. At that time, tea was brewed from loose leaf, poured and served with Ritz crackers smeared with peanut butter. Once finished, my Mum would turn my empty tea cup on an angle and read the what the leaves were telling her. Or in the evenings, she would get out her Ouija Board and use it solo to call on the spirits and supernatural to answer a list of questions that she would seek guidance on. At a very young age, I guess that is how the paranormal entered my subliminal. I was attuned to it without being consciously aware until years later.

The Ouija Board was created in the late 1800s by a Pittsburgh toy and novelty shop. In the beginning it cost around $1.50. Now it is mass produced by Parker Brothers and to name a few places, one can buy it at Target or Amazon for $19.99. Do I own one? Absolutely not. It was not my “cup of tea”. I sought my answers by asking my “spirit guides”. More to come on that cause I’m getting ahead of my story.