Happy Halloween!

Happy All Hallow’s Eve, friends!

Today is one of my favorite days of the year—the last day of the spookiest month in which we celebrate the ominous and sinister elements of our earthly world and the afterlife. There’s something exciting about waiting for the light to wane as the sun sinks behind the horizon and the sound of trick-or-treaters, laughing and talking, begins to fill the streets. In the inky darkness, the orange glow of jack-o-lanterns create jagged, unearthly grins as if they know something we don’t.

My husband and I enjoying our first Halloween together in 2013 at Knott’s Scary Farm, Buena Park, California

It's a day for our imaginations to open the door to other realms where wicked creatures and trapped souls are allowed to walk among us—ghosts, witches, monsters, and ghouls. It’s a time to be frightened for fun and have fun frightening others. It’s headless horsemen, Freddy, Jason, and Mike Myers, and the Great Pumpkin. It’s black cats, dead leaves that crunch underfoot, …