Fear not, Pumpkin.

I mentored an Afghan newcomer last year. One fall day when we met, she was visibly upset. When I asked her why, she said, “There are monsters everywhere! My neighbors have dead people on their grass and they scream whenever someone walks by. It is so scary!”  I had never looked at American Halloween through…

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Emerging From the Goo: New Website and Office, Limited Summer Appointments, and New Connect and Create Workshops

Have you ever given much thought to metamorphosis? As of late, I have. Did you know that when caterpillars tuck into their cocoon sleeping bags for their snooze of transformation, the long fuzzy-bodied beings that they have always been melt away (if you allow me to be liberal here) into a living teaspoonful of goo, akin…

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