For the Love of Halloween... and the Neighborhood

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For the Love of Halloween... and the Neighborhood

We have neighbors who have embraced Halloween to the hilt. We walk by their house each day on our morning walk, and each October, we watch expectantly as the Halloween scene grows and grows. I was interested to find out what motivates this couple to produce such elaborate displays each October. I had a chance to catch up with Mark and Alicia this past weekend to find out what it is about Halloween that ‘floats their boat’.

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Celebrating Milestone Birthdays… and all the ones in between!

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Celebrating Milestone Birthdays… and all the ones in between!

I turn 76 tomorrow. It’s not a milestone-decade event, not a milestone at all —just another birthday, another year of reflection, another year to take stock of my life. It’s a time to appreciate what I’ve had, what I’ve done, what I have, what I still want to do.

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International Tongue Twister Day

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International Tongue Twister Day

Languages other than English have tongue twisters, too. Twisters are universal and appear in nearly every culture and language to help practice pronunciation and diction. Examples can be found in languages such as Czech, Latin, French, German, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese. In Spanish, they’re called trabalenguas, literally 'tongue jammer'. In French, it’s virelangue (tongue twist), and in German, they call them Zungenbrecher, 'tongue breaker'.

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