Last week there was a thing going around about a woman in North Dakota who was so upset about what she sees as a childhood obesity epidemic, that she decided to use the second most popular holiday for children to be a bully. When trick-or-treaters came to her door to get candy, the fat kids […]
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My Spidey Sense Tells Me It’s Time for Halloween Crafts
There was a time in my parenting history when I was my happiest when thinking of Halloween ideas. When my kids were little, Halloween was just emerging as the holiday extravaganza that it’s become. We’d walk into Walmart at around Aug. 1 and one look at the sea of black, orange, lime green and purple […]
You Saw It Here First
For the record, I’m fine with Christmas decorations being out in the stores right after Halloween. I have no problem with steamrolling over Thanksgiving, the day we commemorate our gracious ability to have a civil dinner with people we’ll later dispossess and turn into alcoholics. But I was in CVS on Tuesday this week […]
Thriller! Thriller Night
I was groovin’ to Michael Jackson this week. Not new creepy Michael Jackson; young, hip Michael Jackson. If you’ve ever seen the Thriller video – and if you haven’t, you’re either just emerging from a Unibomber shack in the woods or you’re 4 – look at one of the zombies dancing behind Michael. That […]