OOO0O0HH SPOOOOKY!

"Two years ago, my grandma, who lived in Florida, (Charlotte) died. At the time, my other grandma (Mary) lived in a nursing home in the northeast and was well into her 90s. Apparently, the day Charlotte died, Mary thought she saw her! My mom was with Mary when this happened and didn't see what she was seeing. My grandma never said anything like that before, never thought someone else at the nursing home was my other grandma. My mom said, "Sometimes I wonder if spirits come to say goodbye." After that, I believe people on the cusp of entering the next world (if there is one) must be able to see and sense things in both our world and the next.

The following week, I kept hearing a song I associate with my grandma (from her pool aerobics tape) wherever I went. It's the one by Cool And The Gang that goes, 'Celebrate good times, come on!' It never gets played anywhere in this decade. But there I was, in Whole Foods, and suddenly I'm hearing, 'Yahoo! This is your celebration.' Since I didn't get to say goodbye, I feel like this was her way of reaching out to me to let me know she was there.

I let her know I heard her by putting it in my eulogy for her. And 'because I know we're all sad and missing you," I wrote, "but you deserve to be celebrated.' "