Nothing is "normal" these days...which is why celebrating our favorite holidays is so important this year. That's the sentiment expressed in "Let's Plan on Halloween," an uplifting read from author Leslie Ann Tarabella. Her essay begins:

            "Driving down Government Street in Mobile on the second week of August I liked to have popped my pearls. There, in front of an old historic home was a lawn full of Halloween decorations. Not just pretty pumpkins and stalks of dusty corn, but the yell-in-your-face variety of blow up, blinking, billowing vampires, goblins and skeletons." Read More