Contrary to popular belief, Halloween is not a celebration of the damned or all things evil, but instead a melding of many celebrations – the end of the growing season and its respective harvest, a welcoming of the winter months and a lot of folk tradition surrounding a day when the…

I was a kid once, and I loved Holidays.  I still love Holidays, just in a different, somewhat more stressful way.  Halloween, to me, was always the kick off of the Holiday Season.  Thanksgiving and Christmas still seem eons away, even though I know they’ll sneak up on me like they…