I was going to post a story here to share with your kids, but I posted the only kid’s story II have had published that is scary last year…in case you missed that you can find Cat Candles Here:  CAT CANDLES
If you are in the mood to have someone tell you a story… I just [...]

Since tomorrow is Halloween, and it’s a Saturday, a lot of you will be carving your pumpkins.  Please, don’t carve a boring one.  We’re Dad-o-matic [...]

One of the best perks of being a parent is raiding your kids’ Halloween candy when they are asleep. Of course, my daughter is only [...]

Kids’ costumes in modern times have gone from sickly sweet to just plain sick. A walk down the dripping, splattered, fake-blood-soaked Halloween aisle of your favorite drugstore proves a point last heard in 2000: Gore wins the popular vote.

When I went online to find my kids costumes, I found life-like swords and machetes, clear masks that filled up with blood, and a variety of disembodied heads and severed limbs. I saw a “zombie doctor” costume with “PVC rotting chest, pants with rotted knee, zombie mask, surgical mask, surgical cap and latex gloves” that came in size 4-6!

Times have certainly changed.  My wife and I struggle with how to give our kids the same kind of Halloween we experienced as kids.  The Halloween of our childhood has sadly passed us by.  Instead,  the mall offers trick or treating, we cart the kids around to relatives houses, and we keep some candy in [...]

Halloween is one of the greatest holidays. Like most holidays, it has its share of commercialism, but it doesn’t come with the obligations, guilt, and [...]

It is the morning after Halloween and the house is quiet, save the occasional whine or bark of one of the dogs. In the kitchen [...]

The picture of my “Vampire Weekend” above was taken on Halloween probably 16 years ago. The two little bloodsuckers with me in the photo [...]

I’m going to admit it: I hate Halloween.
There, I’m out of the closet, and for the record:

I don’t like chocolate, or what having a sack [...]

Boo!
With Halloween around the corner, this is a good time to address the art of scaring the bejesus out of your kids!  As someone who [...]

It’s that time of year again, when parents have to avoid drug stores and Wal-Mart as often as possible, if only to get away from multiple requests for a second costume, or another set of make-up, or a third pumpkin carving kit. It’s also the time of year when we look at costumes that are [...]