One of the annual fall traditions in our home is watching “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” together.  There’s something sadly reassuring about watching poor Charlie have the ball pulled out just as he’s about to kick it… and if he ever got anything other than rocks in his bag, I’d wonder where the world went wrong. Not that good ol’ Charles deserves to have a...

     The traditional carving of the jack-o-lantern has its roots in a very dark tale from Irish lore about a man named Stingy Jack, who dared to drink with the devil and gambled his soul on the sharpness of his wits.  Originally Turnips were hollowed out and used as talismans against the dark forces of evil. Immigrants from Ireland brought the jack o’lantern tradition with them when they came to the United States. They soon...

 * To ward off evil on Halloween you should walk around your home three      times clockwise and three times counterclockwise * To see a spider on Halloween means it is a relative returning from the     dead to check on you * Knives were hidden on Halloween night so that returning spirits would     not come to any harm * If you place a turnip on your gatepost on Halloween then no evil spirits     can harm you or your home *...

 Last weekend I had the pre-Halloween fever pretty bad so I procured an early copy of a movie that will be released on October the 6th. If you like horror flicks and enjoy Halloween this movie will thrill you. I liken it to George Romero directed Steven King written Creepshow films (another Halloween classic). Its a series of 4 stories all connected in some way to Halloween. Specifically 4 or 5 of the Halloween tenants that we as modern...

Ah, sweet October. Like so many folks October is my ALL TIME favorite month. In honor of October I wanted to gather some interesting and fun facts you might not have known about this delightful fall time of year. Here goes. As you might already have deduced October gets its name from the number eight. When the calendar was originally created by the Romans, the year began in March (in honor of the God of War, Mars) this meant that instead...