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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Halloween

1. Halloween has it’s origins in the Celtic festival of Samhain, which is derived from Old Irish and means roughly “summer’s end.” The festival celebrates the end of the lighter half of the year and beginning of the darker half and is sometimes regarded as the Celtic New Year. 2. The ancient Celts believed that [...]

Vintage Halloween Cards

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Creepy House Update

A few months ago, I posted a piece called Creepy House Falls Down. The subject is a house down the road from us that has been vacant and falling apart for years. I didn’t have any background information on the who, what and why’s surrounding the house, but I promised to find out what I [...]

Vocabulary Yoga

winsome: generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence daft: silly, stupid, mad or frivolously merry hyperbole: a: obvious and intentional exaggeration b: an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally cathartic: a: purification or purgation of the emotions primarily through art b: a purification or [...]

Overheard at the Record Store – Part 8

“Well, I do live in a van with six dudes, but other than that everything’s cool.” “That woman is trouble. Trouble growing right out of the crazy tree.” “The low point of the day was when some guy tried to hit on me in the port-a-potty line.” “When was the last time you saw a [...]

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