Happy Halloween!
Look, it’s Astrophil!
Well, sort of. It’s baby Julia, my friend’s daughter, dressed as a spider for Halloween. Too adorable!
The sun is going down in New York City, and it is a glorious day for trick-or-treaters. Everyone will be able to show off their costumes instead of covering them up with coats and hats and scarves. Halloween in NYC is fun….but I have to confess I’m feeling a little wistful for a good, old fashioned Midwestern Halloween. I’m remembering the smell and taste of pumpkin seeds roasted in the oven by my mom after me and my sibs gutted our pumpkins. Jack-o-lanterns are the best. The other day, I said to my husband that I was sad that we wouldn’t be able to make jack-o-lanterns with our son.
“Why not?” he asked.
“Rats!” I replied. “Cockroaches! Where would we keep a carved pumpkin? All the pests in NYC would eat it and us alive!”
“Maybe our next apartment will have a balcony,” he said. “And we can keep a jack-o-lantern there.”
Well, we can dream. Of course, that would just mean that we’d have rats and cockroaches on our balcony at the end of October, but maybe it’d be worth it.
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