Late out of the blocks this year, I have been chasing Christmas ever since. In fact, I'd barely shaken the cinder dust off Thanksgiving, when I looked up and saw Santa rounding the first turn. I panicked just a little. It would be a ho-ho-horrible thing to be lapped by an old, jelly-bellied man in [...]
We'll have to repaint the downstairs bathroom and restock the laundry supplies. I'm missing a few pairs of socks and I found a dirty coffee mug stuck under the family room couch. Our gas tanks are empty, but our hearts are full. For a glorious stretch, we had all four of our kids at home. [...]
Around this time of year, I like to haul out my favorite Christmas video. Full of warmth, humor, suspense, and enduring holiday cheer, it speaks to the true meaning of Christmas. Its runtime? 1.23 minutes. I enjoy it because, like most of my life's best things, it wasn't planned. An elf shot it after my [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]