With five minutes to spare, I careened into the house, wearing a furry Chewbacca sweatshirt and lugging bags of candy. Halloween snuck up on me this year but, with more than a half-century of experience, I whipped my house in shape just in time to have a thoroughly good time. With the clock ticking until [...]
As we written about before, we love Halloween. We love the candy, the pageantry, and the food. A confirmed health nut who once cleared our entire house of anything red because she heard red food dye caused cancer, and secretly sprinkled wheat germ on the rest of our food because she heard that wheat germ [...]
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 [...]
Born in the isolation of a Northfield, Minnesota winter, Halfway to Halloween rapidly grew into a global phenomenon, at least in the mind of its founder, Charlie Biskupic. He should have been writing a term paper on that fateful day in 2007. Instead, he invented a holiday. "It had been a long winter," he said. [...]
Magic, mystery, chocolate, creativity, laughter, cute children, game parents, what's not to love about Halloween?I'm a lifelong lover of this Celtic Harvest celebration (thank you to my well-read librarian friend Nelda for that information). Courtesy of a fun-loving dad who liked to carve pumpkins and a health-conscience mom who broke form to serve sloppy joes, [...]
