Once upon my misspent youth, nights were young at 9:00 pm.

Anything earlier was blue-plate territory, better left for senior citizens and defeated people with small children.

At this point in my life, I’d happily go to bed at 8:15pm if I could. Sometimes, I covet my little ones’ footie pajamas, too. And? […]

(This concludes Halloween 2009’s picture fest. I promise, no more photos of the Lifenut kids in costumes, at least until May’s big Night of the Notables when you might see Charlie Chaplin and Coco Chanel make appearances in our backyard.)

We have a giant silver bowl of candy.

We’ve had 3 trick-or-treat groups […]