Closing my eyes briefly, my hand still clutching the door handle, "C'mon Ma, that won't save you", Seth chuckles as he pries my fingers from the door, and leads us straight to the front counter. "You never know", I mutter but further discussion is temporarily thwarted by the ever smiling young Stacey and Seth moving across to the ticket window.

"Hi Mrs Clearwater, what can I get you?" Several suggestions including "Please hide me", flit across my mind but I smile and order a large…

Adding the finishing touches to my makeup I cannot hide my smile or excitement. "Are you ready Eleazar?" "I vant to suck your blood", replies my husband as he sweeps into the bathroom and theatrically drapes his cape clad arm across the lower half of his face. "Oh my", I giggle in response. "You look deliciously evil my dear husband.... and your fangs?", I raise a questioning eyebrow. "But of course my sweet", Eleazar drawls in his perfect Dracula impersonation, instantly flashing them…

I love the excitement that October brings to the town. All the shop window in town get decorated and there is an abundance of sweet treats all over.  I love sitting at the coffee shop next to the fancy dress hire and listening to all the kids and how excited they get about getting dressed up.

Since being at the satellite campus of Peninsula College a few days a week, I have started to have a bigger friend circle. This has been interesting and I am learning so much of other…

Everyone has a favorite time of year. For me it's more of the change of seasons I like. The change between each season. As winter fades and the temperatures warm. Plants start to grow, flowers start to bloom. It's a time that shows change and possibility. My mom was always telling me it was a good time to start new things. Even when I was younger we'd go for walks in the spring to see the world waking up once more. It's something I still do. And then there's the fall. It's a beautiful time…

Over the years I have collected and been gifted several items of jewelry. But there is one piece that brings back happy thoughts and I thought I would share a story of one of my most unique pieces. I remember when I was human that my family had a special tradition. When I turned 18 I was presented with a piece of jewelry, a ring that to this day still sits on a finger of my left…

Shay was just little, about 10 months old. Emily had made Shay a little Red riding hood costume. She fixed her hair  into little pig tails on each side of her head, a little red and white dress with a red cape and hood. Holding tightly to her stuffed wolf as we walked from house to house, she giggled and smiled from ear to ear with excitement. Though I doubt she actually had any understanding of what was going on but, she sure looked adorable

I still remember the day Mina arrived , the guard found her while they were patrolling the outskirts of Volterra back when the Masters traveled back and forth to America, due to the  Vampire wars in the Southern part of that country. 

She was definitely scared of our family even as she was one of our kind herself, upon her arrival seeing how scared she was, Lady Sulpicia and Lady Athenodora asked me to use my gift on her to make her happy to be among us and that way see if she would…

This year my birthday started with my favorite breakfast in bed made by the two most important people in my life, my husband and my daughter, and of course with Shay jumping on the bed to wake me up yelling “Happy Birthday mommy”  and giving me a huge hug and kiss, followed by Sam. We sat on the bed and had breakfast together as we watched Shay’s cartoons, after we finished breakfast we got ready to go out where, well I did not know at this point all they kept saying was it’s a surprise, and…

I can still remember the first time at school where we had to study art.  Most of the guys were making fun of the classical pieces that our teacher was showing us and talking about them. Some of the kids were annoyed because we were having to study euopean art. I even remember one of the older kids asking why we weren't taking this time to learn more about our own tribal arts.

Our teacher simply stated that to truly understand art, you needed to study as many forms as you could. That…