In Halloween's wake I am digesting tiny Twix candy bars, tidying a kitchen sticky with guts from a hastily carved pumpkin and feeling grateful for life's sweetest moments. A steady wave of Trick or Treaters made their way to our door Wednesday night and they were all -- unicorns, dinosaurs, super heroes and villains -- [...]
I love today. I look forward to it every year and so does most of my neighborhood. Our trees roll out their red and gold carpet, our black birds pretend they're ravens, our squirrels chatter with excitement and our raccoons lay low. Our pumpkins become Jack O'Lanterns and grin or glower, depending on their artists' [...]
Halloween blew briskly down our street this year and threatened to send our little trick-or-treaters home early. But, we're made of sterner stuff here in Wisconsin and we love our holidays, our chocolate and our friends. The Erb Park neighborhood did not disappoint last night. Wobbly toddlers in fuzzy costumes, cheerful chaperones, happy bands of [...]
My friend Catherine and I took a spontaneous jump to the left last night, and then a step to the riiiiight. We put our hands on our hips, and brought our knees in tight. My first Rocky Horror Picture Show experience turned out to be everything I'd hope it would be, thanks to the perfectly [...]
We kicked off one of our favorite weeks of the year with 27 Elsa-of-varying-age sightings, four kinds of cooked pumpkins seeds, three jack o'lanterns, two giant meals and one pretty peacock. Our love of Halloween, well-documented here on this blog, spans generations and shows no signs of abating. Six days before the actual event, we [...]
