Saturday we South Florida romance writers had a terrific meeting. Our guest speaker was Tami Hoag. It doesn’t get much better than that. She was gracious, informative, approachable. Some day I’d like to post a blog on the interesting facts I gleaned from her talk – like how she went from romantic comedy writer to romantic suspense writer to suspense writer. Her journey was interesting and encouraging. I left the meeting with two significant learning experiences. One: Tami is a seat-of-the-pants writer, meaning she doesn’t write from a detailed synopsis. I love that! I hate writing and sticking to a synopsis. Second: She lets her plot flow from her characters. Characters are number one. Another plus in the writing world as far as I’m concerned. Okay, so what does this blog have to do with a ghost? I took a picture of Tami and the room filled with eager writers, and lo and behold, when I viewed the picture after I emailed it to myself, I was surprised to see an additional “person” there who perhaps hadn’t paid. Look at the picture. Do you see an apparition? A swirling entity that you can sort of see right through. This is not the first time I’ve caught the “otherwordly” with my camera. Once in an Indian burial ground in North Carolina I caught a “spirit” on horseback. Are there logical explanations? Was someone walking by the table yesterday when I snapped this? I don’t know. Maybe. I believe in logical explanations. But I also sort of believe in the other, non-logical explanations. Especially since Tami was talking about crimes and bodies and unsolved cases. Who really knows? What do you think?