Articles tagged with: halloween
It seems that every year as my son grows bigger and bigger, the sizes of the pumpkins he chooses for jack-o-lanterns grow along with him. In the beginning, our little forays to pumpkin farms yielded mostly a few stray pieces of hay from rides on the farm tractor, a little squirt of hand sanitizer after spending some quality time petting the baby farm animals, and a couple manageable pumpkins my…
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This fall, my daughter has been fascinated with these weird looking, oddly shaped green, yellow, orange and brown “things” at the grocery store. Some have ugly warts; others look like they were halfway dipped in a can of dark green paint. What are they, anyway? Fruits or vegetables? And what do you do with them? I have bought gourds in years past and arranged them in a bowl as an autumn…
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It’s pumpkin picking time! With Halloween just around the corner and so much else to do this time of the year, you might be tempted to grab a couple of pumpkins while you’re at the grocery store and get it over with. Not so fast. You would miss a great opportunity to get the whole family outdoors on a sunny fall day. What’s more, it is always a fun and…
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I was working in my lab, late one night.
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight…
— “Monster Mash” by Bobby Pickett
We all have fond memories of Halloween parties we attended or hosted as kids, getting dressed up and goofing off with friends before heading out to trick-or-treat. Sitting in a circle in a darkened room, we would pass around bowls of eyeballs (peeled…
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Or… A down-and-dirty guide to giving out healthier goodies on Halloween that won’t lead to eye rolling, egging or TP in your trees.
When my friends and I went trick-or-treating on Halloween in the 1970s, we all knew which houses and apartments to avoid on our neighborhood rounds. Still smarting from previous years’ misbegotten “treats” of a toothbrush and toothpaste in baggies cinched with pipe cleaners from a well-meaning (read:…
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I love writing for Zisboombah because I am not a particularly healthy eater.
I really, really want to be, but I’m just not (think my cupcake for dinner obsession proves that).
But, when I come over here and see the happy cooking ants, it reminds me why I want and need to be more healthy, and why I need to do a better job of teaching The Dudes to do…
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Nope, this is not at all about checking whether the people behind ZisBoomBah are practicing what they preach. Because we don’t preach anyway, right? And we have been telling you all along that it is okay to let kids enjoy their Halloween sweets – and for you to hand them out without guilt.
We just thought it would be fun to share with you what members of the ZisBoomBah team…
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