Kyra Moon

My daughter is watching an early episode of Paw Patrol. It is really sad to see Mayor Humdinger's decline: he began as someone whose greatest flaw was encouraging his basketball team to play dirty and gradually became the kind of person who got turned into a giant after helping an evil scientist and then attempted to squish everyone in his way.  Choices have consequences. Think about the sorry fate of Mayor Humdinger the next time you play basketball or race in a hot air balloon.

 I love driving around with my kids and seeing people's cute Halloween decorations. As for my own house, though, I haven't really put up much. Inside, I have exactly two (2) small decorations that are Halloween specific. It's just not a priority for me. However, yesterday I realized that our house is already Halloween-themed without any extra effort on my part. For example, we have: - Skeletons: baby teeth count as bones, right? The Tooth Fairy doesn't throw these away for some reason. - Banshee: electric pencil sharpener - Spiderwebs: we let the real spiders do these themselves. Last week I started mowing the lawn, stopped, and came back an hour later to see a newly-strung spiderweb on the lawn mower. Free decorations! - Ghosts: this month I have become very interested in learning about William Clayton and his in-laws, so they and their stories have taken up residence in multiple tabs of Google Chrome. I have been haunted by the awkwardness and angst in William's j...

I thought it would be fun doing a reader's theatre with my son, so I found a bunch of old radio scripts online. One of them was about Little Orphan Annie's surprise birthday party. The first half was a story about her friends hiding and surprising her followed by her opening presents. The second half was a very long ad from the announcer on how you could get the same birthday ring as her. Turns out the whole concept of YouTube videos where you can watch other kids open and play with toys isn't a modern phenomenon.