What's your favorite color? 1. fox in the snow 2. rain on a café window 3. cozy used bookstore 4. starlight through the trees

Parents, have you talked to your kids about the dangers of the forest? The seductive lure of shadowy nooks, creatures older than time, or the hidden tombs of the ancient gods, wreathed in moss and malevolence?

Who are you? 1. foggy wanderer 2. witch of the wildlands 3. monster in training 4. ghost without a haunt

Words have power. Raccoons that take up bodybuilding and learn ninja skills also have a lot of power, but people don't talk about that as much.

Travel is a good way to expand your mind. It's also a good way to increase in size and strength as you devour one tiny village after another and become a terrifying legend of the lost coast.

The only way to face today is with kindness, compassion, empathy, and a dark determination to do good in the world.

Who are you? 1. foggy wanderer 2. witch of the wildlands 3. monster in training 4. ghost without a haunt

It's important to look after your emotional health. If you feel the need to reawaken the old gods who slumber in dim forests to make your next birthday truly memorable, just go for it. You deserve to be happy.

Every day is a brand new day, and a new chance to teach your local raccoons to become wizards.

Fun ways to beat the heat: - swamp swimming - popsicle pants - ice cream wig - hug a frost giant - take a balloon trip to the Mesosphere - liquid nitrogen burrito - cave rave

Your daily affirmation: Every day is a brand new day, and a new chance to start writing an erotic thriller about moon ghosts.

There are many ways to show someone you care. Be there for them. Carry their sword when they get tired. Listen to their bad ideas about exploring catacombs. Let them run faster than you when you're fleeing monsters who live in the catacombs.

What forest spirit best matches your mood? 1. forlorn bog hag 2. doom moose 3. weird mossy stump 4. wandering darkness

How spicy do you like your food? 1. bland 2. fiery 3. medically questionable 4. soul leaving the body

Your daily affirmation: I am strong. I am proud. And it’s ok if folks are afraid of the ancient light of cosmic madness that shimmers in my eyes.

You may not love what you do for a living, but you can love the way you do it, using kindness, compassion, old magic, and deep cosmic weirdness.

Be sure to hydrate against the heat. You wouldn't want the fine coating of moss, fungi, and lichens that cover your malevolent form to dry out when you shamble from the forest looking for beer & ice cream.

Your daily affirmation: Like a low budget horror film, use your imagination and ingenuity to turn your limitations into strengths.

How spicy do you like your food? 1. bland 2. fiery 3. medically questionable 4. soul leaving the body

My advice: - be kind - be weird - be helpful - be weirder still - be creative - be the weirdest of all

What's your favorite sight? 1. sunset on a wild coast 2. fog drifting through mountains 3. moss dripping from trees 4. cozy bookstore cafe on a lazy day

Walk into the forest and bring a little light into your life. #ForestFriday

Every day is a brand new day, and a new chance to become the reason a neighborhood has a reputation, or a map has a dire warning.

The story of your life is not yet written. There is still time to add luxury blimp travel, haunted castles, and talking animals into the narrative.

Friends and books will both disappoint us occasionally. But at least with books, you can donate or resell them.

Your daily affirmation: There's nothing stopping you from making this the second weirdest day of the week.

Don't apologize if folks are afraid of your antlers and fangs. Don't apologize if you are responsible for most of the hauntings in your town. Don't apologize for your shambling or gloomy glamour. Don't apologize for being yourself.

What's your favorite sight? 1. sunset on a wild coast 2. fog drifting through mountains 3. moss dripping from trees 4. cozy bookstore cafe on a lazy day

Gardening tips: - plant black roses - give your garden gnomes a living wage - plant even more black roses - bury inscribed bones as a ghost fence - invest in a reliable squirrel catapult

If you leave us a bad Yelp review, the river witch will totally wreck your credit score. She moonlights in our IT department.

What's your favorite sound? 1. fragile birdsong 2. sweet sad music 3. gentle laughter 4. mysterious murmuring in the forest

Fade into your day. Fade into old bookstores. Fade into dark taverns. Fade into soft sad music. Fade into a sinister fog on the coast. Fade into the mossy forest, for a day or forever.

There are many ways to improve your life: - read books - be kind - read more books - rest - read so many books that an ancient power of undying fire ignites deep in your eyes - hydrate - read more books

Your daily affirmation: Life is what you make it. So make art. Make joy. Make a den of twigs & wildflowers in the old forest and hibernate for 1,000 years.

What's your favorite sound? 1. fragile birdsong 2. sweet sad music 3. gentle laughter 4. mysterious murmuring in the forest

There are many ways to show someone you care. Becoming a vengeful sea witch to protect their favorite stretch of wild and foggy coast is one such way.

What's your favorite direction? 1. west 2. forward 3. yonder 4. widdershins

Your horoscope for today: Be like the troll under the bridge - curl up in a snug little space, speak only in riddles, and devour anyone who dares disturb you.

Reasons to own an enchanted skull: - looks cool on shelf - gives ok advice - makes a good drinking partner - will sometimes laugh at your jokes - makes an excellent hat stand for at least one hat

Choose love. Choose peace. Choose kindness. Choose to keep searching old books, crumbling ruins, and mossy forests for portals to other realms, where reading & sleeping are celebrated sports.

Your daily affirmation: Humans are simply animals like all the rest. Don't be afraid to growl at folks sometimes to show that you mean business.

Tomorrow is another day, and another chance to become the most haunted thing in the haunted forest north of town.

What's your favorite direction? 1. west 2. forward 3. yonder 4. widdershins

Hey friends! Edmonds Scanner is heading out to beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico soon. We need suggestions for good food, fun hikes, and as much weird stuff as possible. We've been to the Folk Art Museum and the "Miraculous" Staircase, so where else should we go?

Things you can find in the shadows: - lost books - dark fairies - mossy nooks - sexy vampires - eyes in the dark - entrance to the backrooms

What's your favorite kind of spirit? 1. mysterious forest light 2. mischievous ghost cat 3. malevolent sea spectre 4. tequila or rum

Remember. The only one stopping you from wearing the antlered crown of a long dead forest god to work and demanding a raise from your startled boss is you.

I love sports. My favorite sport is watching folks flee from the old witch's cottage as it lurches about the forest on giant chicken legs, wreathed in ancient magic and madness.

Your daily affirmation: Change is inevitable. Tacos are not exactly inevitable, but maybe they should be.

Do not fear the night. Face it boldly. You and your comfortable oversized pants and general sense of cosmic dread belong to the darkness.