Cathy Cash Spellman

New York Times & International Best Selling Author

What’s Outside the Box?

Friday, January 25th, 2013

My mother could foretell death, my daughter described her own death in heartbreaking detail a month before it happened, we had a family Banshee and my aunts tended to communicate by telepathy.  In short, we were Irish, so none of that was beyond the Pale of plausibility. You can imagine why, coming from such a [ Read More ]

The Family Plot

Saturday, January 12th, 2013

It occurred to me today, as I found myself standing in the middle of the family plot talking to the people I love who are no longer with me except in spirit and memory, that anyone not Irish might  consider it odd to find comfort in a cemetery.  Yet, I always do. I’d gone there [ Read More ]

My Alone Time with the Tree

Friday, January 4th, 2013

5:00 a.m. It’s just me and the tree.  The house is quiet.  Nobody else loves the morning as I do, since my father’s gone.  There’s snow on the ground and sleet has turned the trees outside to fairyland, ice palaces crisscrossing my front yard, transforming the winter-blue light into a magical dreamscape. I throw a [ Read More ]

Sign up to Cathy's Newsletter for news and offers