Credit Kimberlee Rutan McCafferty

This past fall I took a bit of a hiatus from writing as much as I usually do, and instead took a good long look at the state of my house. Topically, it wasn’t in such terrible disar...

Credit Jim E. Kelly

Halloween,  the great holiday celebrating children, their custumes and the macabre have some pretty amazing origins. Growing up in Middletown we would arrive home from school on Halloween...

Credit Mike Sockol

Exactly 50 years ago this month, Bobby Pickett, an aspiring actor with a pretty good Boris Karloff impersonation, saw his novelty tune, “Monster Mash,” reach the top of the Billboard char...

Credit LisaMarie Berger

Holidays provide great reasons to introduce new books to your child. For the kid who hasn't shown much interest in books or reading, the excitement of Halloween may be enough to lure him ...

Credit Dinah OConnor

The beach umbrellas and chairs are barely cleaned and packed away when the Halloween catalogs begin arriving in our mail. Quite honestly, I don’t recall ever ordering a costume online, ...