Dispatch from the Pumpkin Trail

While our generous Main Street merchants handed out candy to the kids, I ducked into Sylvester & Company for one of these adorable white chocolate ghosts.

Loosening up in Time for Halloween?

For many years, I refused to wear any type of Halloween costume when I accompanied my children on the Pumpkin Trail, no matter how desperately they begged. And I've never, on some kind of strict principle although I couldn't explain it to you now if my life depended on it, used an emoticom in my life. But these masks are making me rethink my rigid rules in time for the 31st. Look for me, sitting on a bench outside the Wharf Shop, as you collect your candy.