My parents bought a Baptist Church when I was one to rehab it into our family home in the early 1970s. Growing up--upon hearing we lived in a former church--people always remarked about how blessed it must have been. How filled with angels it was. Kind of. Not. It didn't feel like anything more than my home. Aside from the three little hellions who's resided there (my sisters and I), we had another tenant: the Ghost of Remington House. I don’t remember when we first began r

One day in sixth grade, my classmate Dusty asked, "Ronnie, do you know what the strongest geometric shape is?" Though out of the blue, he seemed pretty confident about this topic--and the answer. I had no idea what he was talking about. I hated geometry and preferred spending time in my head thinking about important topics like recent storylines on "Battlestar Galactica" or “Charlie’s Angels." But he was my friend, so I indulged him. "No," I replied. "A triangle," he said