From my perspective as a person--biologically speaking, of course--the anticipation we feel when Christmas is upon us falls into three categories: wanting to keep holiday nostalgia alive, making new memories for the new season and just wanting to get through the whole thing in one piece.Since ...
Anyone who reads this column on a regular basis knows that I love writing about holidays...and aliens...and toilets...and robots...and my tendency to lose focus on whatever I鈥檓 writing about...and...where was I going with this?Anyway, I like how some holidays influence the other days around ...
I don鈥檛 care how smart you are, the task of ordering your child鈥檚 class photos can push any IQ to the breaking point.On its face, the order form for the school photos is a complex mess of choices.Let鈥檚 say, for example, you have trouble deciding over paper or plastic bags at the grocery ...
I remember when Hershey Kisses with an almond inside were introduced. It rocked my world.Before that, we had the Hershey Kiss, a perfect little dab of chocolate goodness, but they shook things up by putting an almond inside! I was so overwhelmed, I had to give myself a timeout.Yes, I have no ...
We had a lot of cool things in the 1990s.For example, we had a cloned sheep, sneakers with air pumps built into them for some reason and a cliffhanger at the very end of the decade called 鈥淵2K鈥� when we didn鈥檛 know if computers would shutdown and the world would end in the numeric transfer ...
In my constant observation of childhood rituals through the eyes of a jaded adult, I have to say that people have really missed the point of trick-or-treating.Some say it鈥檚 a custom to strengthen relationships of those in a neighborhood, others say it鈥檚 a custom created by the candy company ...
