The Orange Holiday

Halloween has always been the most favored holiday in my house. What's not to adore. We get to be someone we're not, the rest of the year. Kids get to wander freely after dark without parents. We get to knock on strangers' doors without any emergency reason. People give things to each other without expecting anything in return, except for the occasional trick. The two main symbols of the holiday are a woman in very cool black clothes -- even a hat, and a vegetable.