It is Halloween today and somehow it kind of makes me a little sad. This used to be one of my favorite times as a kid. Lots of rules about what you could eat were dropped and you used to be able to roam the neighborhood until way later than normal. Mom and Dad would always come up with a good costume out of what was around. Burnt cork for makeup and maybe some of mom's lipstick.
It was always the peak of the evening when, after all the racing around the neighborhood and beyond, you came back and dumped your whole pile of sweet loot on the kitchen table and sorted it into all its myriad varieties. A pile for favorites and a pile for licorice(yuck!)... a pile for chocolate and a pile for hard. Then came the agonizing job of deciding which order to eat it all in.
Kids today will get a store bought costume made in China and will be carefully escorted around to select neighbors for sanitized bags of High Fructose Corn Syrup. (I even heard this morning on the news that marshmallow Peeps have been outsourced to China.)
Anyhow, there won't be any popcorn balls. There won't be any homemade fudge or rice crispy treats and most of all there won't be any memories. Just another sanitized and commercialized event that will run together with the rest of such into an insipid and pale shadow of a childhood memory.
What's worse is that the stores are already decorated for Christmas. Halloween has become so hollow that it is now just a marker on the calendar for when you should start your Christmas shopping.
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