When my grandma was living with us in Louisiana after Grandpa Mac’s death, she wanted to have seances at our house, but my mother said there absolutely would be no such goings-on in her home. She didn’t want her children frightened by a bunch of noisy ghosts. She also wanted us to remember Grandpa as a kindly old man here on earth and not as something spooky from the beyond. Grandma had other ideas.