Today is the day that we wait all year for. Not Christmas, not Valentine's day, Halloween. It's finally Halloween. One of the most celebrated holidays, based on the collecting of candy and having costumes to hide who we really are.

It's a time of magic for someone in any generation. From the young to the old, Halloween offers a way for the person to be someone that they're not.

Memories of us when we're young dressing up as doctors and ballerinas and ninjas. For 4 years consecutively I dressed up as a hippie. I had the bellbottoms and open sleeve shirts in this hideous flower pattern handmade by my aunt. I loved that costume. I loved dressing up as someone I wasn't knowing full well that the next day I would be back to my usual outfits.

Halloween has its own magic about it that draws people to it, the costumes are just one part of it. I think the bigger part of Halloween that draws people to it is the atmosphere that is created by it. The decorations that people come up with to try and one up their neighbor can sometimes compete with the best haunted houses out there. It takes time and patience and Halloween can draw that out of people.

Halloween is mysterious, its mystical to some and just plain fun to others. It has no rules or boundaries. It just is what it is.

Halloween Magic. One day a year the memories from our pasts and the memories we will make, adds to the magic from that day.