Tide Pool
Stories, reflections, and personal essaysA tide pool holds many small worlds at once. This space does too. Here you’ll find personal essays and reflections on Salem, ghost hunting, food, grief, freedom, nature, and the ongoing work of becoming yourself again.
Spirits of Salem: After Hours Ghost Hunt Log 2026
Hello all! It’s that time of year again! Here are all the paranormal findings that I’ve made note of for this year’s ghost hunts. Also… follow me at @paranormalsalem on TikTok. I share my favorite things from the season over there! 9/26/26- We heard “Get out of here”...
Where I shop as a local in Salem
The questions I get most often from people visiting in Salem are "Where should we eat?" and "What should we do?" so I wrote these blogs: What to eat in Salem Massachusetts and The Best Museums in Salem according to a local Well, the next question is usually asking...
Spirited Evenings: Creating a Spirit Communication Workshop in Salem
Fifteen years ago I started a tour company called Paranormal Salem. I would take small groups on a walking tour through the haunted streets of Salem starting at 10pm, using ghost hunting equipment. We'd end the tour in the basement of what used to be Salem's first...
The Best Museums in Salem… according to a local
I had the opportunity to visit almost all of the museums and attractions here in Salem Massachusetts over the summer. Most of them I had visited previously but it had been years and years. Here are my thoughts on each one along with a video I made about them... Witch...
Spirits of Salem: After Hours Ghost Hunt Log 2025
Hello fellow ghost hunters! It's that time once again. This is all the strange things that happen during my After Hours Ghost Hunt at Gallows Hill Theatre for 2025. Also... I tell the best of these stories on Tiktok so make sure you're following me over there...
Dear Kimberly Bizjak,
Dear Kimberly Bizjak, The other day, a client looked me in the eye and said, “You look like you’ve shed a heavy coat.” I smiled and told her, “You’re right. The funny thing is, I didn’t even know I was wearing one.” I’m writing to you now, from the other side. From...
Spirits of Salem: After Hours Ghost Hunt Log 2024
Hello fellow ghost hunters! It’s that time of year again! I’ll be writing a short log of the most interesting paranormal findings at my After Hours Ghost Hunt at Gallows Hill Theatre every night for 38 nights! (Interested in last year's log? Click here.) Also, this...
Writing in sand at low tide
I just spent the past couple weeks re-vamping my entire website. I got rid of almost everything "Life off the deep end" which was all about my family and our sailing adventures. Instead of celestialnavigationastrology.com being only the services page for the...
Soar
Litha Crew Post from March 21, 2023 (Catching up from January 2023) This January, I finally got the tattoos that I've been wanting for years. I'm going through a major life cycle transit called the Uranus Opposition. It's the "midlife crisis" that we all go through,...
Emerge from the depths
Litha Crew Post from March 21, 2023 (Catching up from December 2022) "The future itself, appears as a mysterious and unknowable figure, literally shrouded in darkness." -Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol December is dark. Long ago, the telling of ghost stories...
Walk Your Talk
Litha Crew Post March 21, 2023 (Catching up from November 2022) As a Pisces sun, Cancer rising, with my Moon in the 12th house, and Neptune in my 6th... anyway... it all means that I'm a little bit... out there? Floaty? Spacey? Not grounded, and a very anxious...
When you’re overwhelmed
Litha Crew Post from March 21, 2023 This lesson, is all about what I've learned about myself when I become overwhelmed. I mean, seriously... I got so overwhelmed that I'm writing up the Lesson From Litha Newsletter 6 months late. It's freaking March, and I have a...
Glaciers and Coral
Litha Crew Post from September 9, 2022 I actually don't have some big lesson for July. Much of the month was spent on vacation. We spent 4th of July weekend sailing around the Boston Harbor Islands with our friends. And then the last couple weeks in July was spent...
Happy Litha!
Litha Crew Post from July 13, 2022 I would hope you all know by now that Litha is the Pagan/Celtic celebration of the Summer Solstice. Every year on Litha, I see the name of our home afloat all over social media. A friend tagged me in a post on Instagram because a...
The eclipse dinghy adventure
Litha Crew Post from June 14, 2022 So, each month when it's time to write my lesson, I scroll back through the photos on my phone to remember what I did that month. This photo stuck out as the "YES! I'm gonna talk about THIS!" If you read my Tarotscopes, you'll know...
Injustice
Litha Crew Post from May 31, 2022 It's almost June and I've purposefully been putting off writing my April blog as I was waiting for some info from my friend to include in it. Last month I posted about Holi and how even though we are back in the US, we live in such...
Happy Holi
Litha Crew Post from April 4, 2022 From Wikipedia: Holi ( /ˈhoʊliː/) is a popular ancient Hindu festival,[1][9] also known as the Festival of Spring, the Festival of Colours or the Festival of Love. Holi celebrates the arrival of spring, the end of winter, the...
A mermaid out of water
Litha Crew Post from April 4, 2022 We went to New Hampshire for my birthday and the hotel there had a full size fridge. Obviously my kids have seen plenty of full size refrigerators as we visit friends and family... but I guess this one was fascinating because it...
