Day of the Dead: Celebrating and Communicating with Your Loved Ones as the Veil Thins
As much as I live for Halloween each year, Dia de los Muertos (aka Day of the Dead) gives me life! My love affair with this traditional Mexican holiday began during my brief stint teaching middle school Spanish. We created a class offrenda to the late Tejano singer, Selena, and I pranked them with some light tricks involving the overhead projector during a super hokey séance. I know there is some Karen out there who is outraged at the thought of her tween snowflake being exposed to a séance funded by her tax dollars, but I refuse to apologize for what turned out to be the highlight of my experience in pre-pubescent purgatory. Sorry, not sorry. Now that I am a professional medium, I make a living communicating with the dead for real (no hocus pocus or pranks involved), and I consider each reading a reunion and celebration. You don't have to be able to see and hear the dead as I do, however, to connect with your departed loved ones in a meaningful way. You can try the activity sugges...