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Why bother calling Ghost Busters when you can just go to Radio Shack?
If there’s one thing for which Steve Gonsalves has irrefutable proof, it’s that people want to believe. As technology manager for The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) on the SciFi Channel documentary-style series, “Ghost Hunters,” he’s regularly approached by fans bearing that universally understood object of paranormal evidence — The Wonky Photograph.

My family is scattered.

Both of my grandmothers are feisty old women: one lives in North Carolina with my aunt, the other recently moved to a nursing home in rural Maryland.

My parents and brother live in the Caribbean: sometimes in St. Thomas, USVI, and sometimes on a rainforest coffee plantation in the interior of Puerto Rico.

All of my sisters live near Disney Resorts: two in Orlando, FL, and the other in southern California.

If things have been tough this year, or if you or anyone else in your family has been out of work, there are agencies who are available to help those in need for Christmas. It is nothing to be ashamed of, and everybody needs a little bit of help at times.

The heartbreaking impact of a worldwide Internet ticket scam is only now becoming clear, as victims arrive in Beijing without the Olympics tickets they thought they had purchased months ago. Among the victims is a California man who may now be unable to watch his 16-year-old daughter compete in swimming events. The father of a U.S. softball team player also says he was scammed after he paid $3,500 for tickets to the opening ceremony.The victims thought they had purchased their tickets from a Web site named BeijingTicketing.com.

In every life and for every family, there crisis and hard times that occur which are beyond the control of any family, even those who live the most conservative types of life. How we choose to react to thestress caused by these hard times determines how our family will react.