Today is my birthday and I am now 51 years old. You are probably wondering what brought me to Physicsforums. I was searching for an answer to an encounter I had with a glowball at age 13. My stepsister and I were looking out our bedroom window and I saw this glowball frolicking on the grass. I said "What the hell is that?" It then rose up in the air about 6'. I said, "OMG, it can see us. It is coming over here." My stepsister then fell to the floor behind me and I looked...

I'm back after almost 3 years! I'm glad my blog is still here. In re-reading some of it, it captures alot that was going on with me at the time. Well we went broke, lost our home in Atlanta, GA, moved in with my mother in Ohio in Aug. 2010. I left my son behind so he could continue his education there and he went on to college. He is barely making ends meet. My husband, daughter and I have had to adjust living with mom. Everything is better now. My husband is working, my daughter has a best...