
The beautiful and talented Miss Jessie McKenna, lead singer and songwriter for Ruby Shuz.
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The lovely Bridget Mckenna, family friend, writer, and publisher, with little-wee versions of Fenris and Orion.
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The ever-charming Marti Mckenna, writer, publisher, singer, sculptor and cutie-pie.
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Special friend and fellow hearse lover Laurie Coxon, also known as Laurie Gaurie Addams Poe. |
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Harold Gross, the undead half of science fiction writing team Gordon Gross. Okay, he's not really a zombie. Harold is really pretty gorgeous.
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Eve Gordon, the beautiful half of science fiction writing team Gordon Gross, and wildlly talented designer and seamstress.
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Artist Alan M Clark and his lovely wife Melody. (Alan always looks like this just before he strikes.)
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Bestest best friend Victoria Love, gravestone historian and author, hanging out in a New Orleans cemetery.
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Victoria's desperately cute little girl, Sydney, ready to let fly with a snowball. If she's anything like her mom, her aim is deadly.
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Sydney's darling baby sister Alexis, dressed up as a bumblebee for Halloween.
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Alan Bedard, tech writer, master chef, photographer and zombie.
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SF and fantasy artist Adrian Bourne, with adorable daughter Elvis Holiday.
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Holly, a tiny Fenris and a special friend.
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A somewhat pregnant me, and dear friend Tamara McKenna.
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Pal Rick Franklin and his prize-winning Lincoln Continental hearse, Morticia.
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Artist, photographer and Seattle Knight Douglas Herring appearing as his alter-ego, the Green Man.
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Authors Harold Gross and Eve Gordon. (See, I told you he wasn't really a zombie.)
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Dear friend, live-music-show buddy, and talented hairstylist Diane West giving Orion his first haircut.
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Lorelei and Victoria having FAR too much fun in the House of Blues in New Orleans.
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Long-time pal Jeff Steele, handsome devil and part-time pirate.
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Family friend Daphne and her adorable son Daniel, who is one of Fenris's best pals in the world.
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The devastating Mrs. Barbara Winter, super-smart hottie and mom of two of the cutest little boys in creation.
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Dear friend Spring and her sweetie Dave, on the day before their wedding in Hawaii.
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Yes, these attractive and charming people really are related to us.

My aunt Tansy, cat lover, Buffy afficianado, and cool chica. |
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My dear aunt Molly, mom to the boy cousins I grew up with, Don and Ted.
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My cousin Ted, computer whiz and writer. |
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My uncle Don, Molly's husband and Don and Ted's dad.
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Uncle Brain. We all wish he'd give up those rodent/human gene splicing experiments.
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My brother Dave and his lovely wife Jay.
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My mom Fran (whom the boys call "Maa") cuddling a mini-Fenris.
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A small Orion hanging out with his cousin Brian, who will someday be a famous filmmaker.
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Bitty Orion spending time with his Aunt Chris (Brian's mom and my frequent partner in crime).
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Wee teensy Fenris and his uncle Rob (Daniel's brother and Chris's husband, Mini fan and silent film buff).
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Rob and Chris's older son Sean and his radiant bride, Clarissa.
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Orion and his cousin Jack.
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My cousin Emily, in the amazing Renaissance wedding dress that she made. In fact, she made the Ren outfits for the entire wedding party.
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My aunt Becky, mother of bride Emily, in her lovely Ren outfit.
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Uncle Ron, father of the bride, stylin' in cavalier duds.
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My desperately adorable cousin Rachel (Emily's big sister Beth's daughter), in the flower girl outfit that Emily made for her.
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The lovely Emily and her handsome husband Tom.
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The newest member of our family, Em and Tom's daughter Brenna (who is in the running for Cutest Baby on the Planet).
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Brenna and her grandparents, Becky and Ron. Isn't her pumpkin hat fetching?
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And one more picture of Brenna, just because she's so dang adorable.
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Just us.

Me and itty-bitty Fenris at the Seattle Center.
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Daniel and Orion out trick-or-treating. Orion is dressed as Petey Piranha Plant from Super Mario Sunshine.
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Our wedding day: October 31st, 1990. A marriage made in...heaven?
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Me putting on the ritz, getting ready to go out with my girls.
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Daniel, Lorelei, Fenris, and baby Orion on a beach near Malibu. Proof that we can go out in the sunlight (with SPF 350).
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A kinda pregant Lorelei and a kinda sleepy Daniel after one of our famous parties..
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Victoria and me, hanging out in our natural environment.
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The Shannon-Carver family, looking somewhat less like the Addams family than we usually do.
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