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I rashly went out Halloween costume shopping a few days ago. I'm not sure what I was thinking. Well, I know I needed to pick up a costume for my daughter — Yes, a few days shy of Halloween. I'm totally on top of [...]
Their rough, jagged faces
glare menacingly at me,
teeth bared in fierce snarls.
The sweet delights tempt,
but I pause, hand trembling.
Jack-o-lanterns watch!
Halloween creeps up…
Janie stretches her arms wide,
shouts, “I’ll be a bat!”
“For certain, a bat!
Unless I should be a witch.
Or maybe a cat.”
“I’ll be a princess!
A vampire! A zombie!
A princess zombie!”
Mama thinks she’ll be
whatever’s left in the store
on Halloween eve!
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I've heard that the first year is always the hardest, whether it's the first year after you lose a loved one or end a relationship or start recovery. There are all those significant dates rolling around for the first time in your changed life. [...]
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October 31 of 2003 was a hard day for me. I don't remember any longer what, specifically, was difficult about it, but I do know that told my husband, bitterly, as we climbed into bed that it had been a hard day. My son Austen [...]
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The glow of red eyes.A mouth slashed across the face.Jack-o-lantern glares.
Candles flickering.A little witch waits outside.Ghouls rap on my door.
Green hands hover, curl,then plunge into the cauldronand draw out candy.
Everybody screamWhether with fear or delight.It's Halloween night!
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The day after Halloween I practiced a parenting technique I like to call "teaching children to self-regulate." I like to call it that, because it sounds better than "taking the easy way out so that everyone will be quiet and leave Mama alone when she is tired and sick."
Most of us remember from our [...]
