Wisdom for Dummies

Yes, this is late … but our trick or treating got a weather delay. There’s probably no better timed holiday than Halloween. After all, it comes just before the two most frightening times on the […]
Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic write, speak and blog together as The Word Mavens. As our children get older, we miss some of the fun little kid things we used to do with them: visiting […]
What do you do if you bought a lot of Halloween candy and only about eight kids came around trick-or-treating? (a) Put the extra candy in the cupboard and keep it until next Halloween (b) […]
Dear Lord, please forgive my memory lapse and total lack of respect for our Halloween Shop’s policy that everyone MUST dress in costume on October 31st. When my micro-managing boss asked why I didn’t wear […]
October is well known for its beautiful autumn foliage. It’s also known for spooky, scary Halloween activities. We live in a small southern town where children dressed as ghosts and goblins still ring your bell […]