Creative Success Depends on Long View
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Podcast: Fall Fun For The Whole Family!
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Pamela McMurtry is the author of A Harvest and Halloween Handbook and event maven! From organizing to décor to food, Pam does it all!
Fall Fun For The Whole Family!
What are your favorite ways to celebrate fall with family [...]
I’m Too Sexy For My Child
On the eve of Halloween, many young girls are choosing overtly sexy costumes.
Imagine a 5-year-old dressing up like Rihanna. Scary…frightening….ghoulish, indeed.
I honestly cannot even remember when I first heard the word “sexy,” and [...]
Halloween and the Ghost of People Past
Every year, at all hallows eve…
Most kids in America get dressed up in costumes and knock on doors for candy or go to parties and sing “The Monster Mash,’ while eating pretend brain goop slop pouring from carved out pumpkins…in other [...]
Is Your Reputation Haunted by Ghosts and Goblins?
It’s Halloween once again – time for the ghosts and goblins to come out and play.
While ghosts and goblins are great fun on Halloween; they’re not good when they haunt your reputation. Here are a couple of scary stories that illustrate [...]
Dancing Spirits: Your Day of Dead Horro-scope 2012
Aries – The Ram:
Put ghosts from the past out of your mind and plant fertile seeds of optimism for your future. Searching for a sexy Halloween costume just might help you feel like igniting some opportunities for trick or treat fun. [...]
Top 13 Halloween Safety Tips
Important safety tips for Halloween
The fall is here and Halloween is right around the corner. Fortunately for me I have two kids which means I’m going trick or treating and eating 20lbs of chocolate on November 1st. Don’t worry I’ll [...]
Having a Frightening Time Getting Hired After a Layoff?
Having a frightening time getting hired after you’ve been laid off?
This week I’m teaching you how to build your personal brand, position yourself to hiring managers and customize your resume after a lay-off.
A few years ago, I woke up one [...]
Is it a Trick or is it a Treat?
With the tone of the voice in Poltergeist—“they’re heeere…”
The grocery store shelves are full of them and have been for weeks! Halloween is only one day, yet candy makes its appearance weeks early, ensuring those little “fun-size” [...]
Why Adults Should Dress Up for Halloween
Why should kids have all the fun?
I used to dress up as a clown and accompany my children on their Halloween trick-or-treat trips. Instead of a bucket for candy, I carried a wine glass. Sometimes it was meager pickings in my conservative neighborhood, [...]
There Are Boy Ladybugs?
Most dogs don’t like to wear anything on their heads.
Believe it or not, they probably don’t like wearing costumes either. But, no one ever asked them. Pet parents (yes, parents, not owners) just dress them up and prance them around, especially [...]
Ghosts, Hauntings, And Bumps In The Night!
A psychic view of earthbound spirits
When I was young, I had many frightening experiences of being harassed by an unfriendly leprechaun-ish kind of ghost! The first time was when I was about 3 or 4 years old. I woke up and saw this little [...]
The Amazing Kreskin and You
What do the numbers two, thirteen, and ONE have in common?
Two nights ago, my thirteen year-old daughter stood on stage with The Amazing Kreskin and their minds became One.
Eliah (rhymes with Maria), volunteered to stand on stage with Kreskin [...]
The First Halloween With Neptune In Pisces
Neptune in Pisces. The veil is very thin now.
Neptune entered Pisces, the sign it has rulership over, last February, and will remain there until January 2026. This is an event that occurs only once every 165 years. It is a period during [...]
Warlock Forest
There they stood, at the piercing edge of Warlock Forest.
The Wise One and her apprentice, Isaac, intently listen to the haunting bellows that creep across the chilled mist as it slowly collects upon the moon-lit shadows of their brows. It is [...]
Growing Up With Ghosts (Part 2)
My uncle Dave and his wife Reiko lived next door to us beginning in 1971.
I was 6 years old at the time. They would spend a lot of time over at our house from the early to the mid-1970s. These were great times with a lot of fun as I recall! [...]
Ghost Busting and Space Clearing
Tis’ the season!
It is believed that the fall months are the time of the year when the veil between heaven and earth is the thinnest and that the energy of the spirit realm is heightened. Therefore, this time of the year is a good time [...]
Making Halloween the Perfect Addition to An Introverts Holiday List
A holiday for Introverts.
Costumes, decorations and trick-or-treating door to door are all just around the corner. So, what are you going to be for Halloween? Egads. As an introvert, an INTJ at that, I’m calculating the different ways [...]
Get Your Fright On When You Can!
My favorite holiday.
As I sit here, sipping my pumpkin spice coffee and looking out at what we Floridians consider Fall, I am reminded that one of my all time favorite holidays is swiftly approaching – Halloween. Ever since I was a little [...]
Are You Being Haunted By Yourself?
The Christmas Carol is the fictional story of miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge.
He was haunted by the ghosts of his Christmas past, present, and future. They reminded him of who he was and where his path was leading to give him a second chance at [...]
Don’t Be A Ghost …In Your Online Classroom!
If you are teaching online, you are most likely subjected to rigorous rules about posting and daily login requirements.
However, meeting the minimum is not usually sufficient if you want to engage your learners and help them thoroughly understand [...]
Scary Times… Not!
Hopefully, Halloween is the scariest thing you have to deal with right now.
While many are panicking over the receding economy right now, let’s all try to focus on creating ways to deal with it and trust it will pass. As Albert Einstein [...]
50 Shades of Black – Sexy and Scary in the Honeymoon Capital
In my town, I get to see the 7th natural wonder of the world everyday–Niagara Falls.
In my neck of the woods, folks like the great Nik Wallenda share magical moments by walking over Niagara Falls. In my backyard, lovers come from all over [...]
Why I Don’t Date Vampires
I realize that vampires are very fashionable in books and on screen right now.
However, no matter how romantic they may seem, I do not want to date a vampire. First there is the obvious reason, I don’t know any real vampires. (Though my ex-husband [...]
Growing Up With Ghosts (Part 1)
I grew up in a truly haunted house.
The house was a huge Victorian home in Elizabeth, New Jersey complete with eight bedrooms, three full floors, beautiful real oak floors and wood-workings, twelve foot ceilings, a second-floor porch, walk-in [...]
Halloween Horror Nights and Life Lessons?
Halloween is here.
Last night some friends of mine and I headed over to Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights. Our whole intention was to have fun and to help a friend of ours from England experience Halloween American style. Apparently [...]
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