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Get your pumpkins in a row with my Autumn Equinox checklist
This is it — my favorite season of the year is almost here! But … my house is a wreck. I’ve just been So. Tired. I’ve been trying to settle into a new…
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Stream it for our daughters: ‘The Baby-Sitter’s Club’ on Netflix
I’m not surprised a witch named Esme spices up the “The Baby-Sitter’s Club” on Netflix. (And you better believe I noticed Esme’s layers and layers of witchy jewelry.) When a frightened flower girl…
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How to make spring cleaning more magical
In early 2020, just before the COVID pandemic, I decided to finally deal with the years of baby and toddler clothes my husband and I had stored in our guest room “just in…
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You have the power to make the weather
This is going to sound way more boring than it was, but here goes: Over the summer, in an effort to better understand my job at the community college, I read books including…
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Why does the Grand High Witch seem so … familiar?
Just yesterday, I learned a new version of “The Witches” would be released on Oct. 22 on HBO Max. The remake of Roald Dahl’s children’s book stars Anne Hathaway as the Grand High…
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My favorite Halloween decoration is simple (and easy to make)
My Halloween decorating may seem a bit over-the-top to some muggles. Around the autumn equinox each year, I start transforming our fireplace into a witch’s hearth, complete with potion bottles, a spooky skull,…
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How to create moments of real magic
I started to believe in real magic in 1993, when my teenage dream came true at Disney World. Up until that November day, I had obsessed about one, singular celebrity: actor Sean Astin,…
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The Little Witch (2018): Witchy movies to get you in the Halloween spirit
My father-in-law, “Poppy,” grew up with a rule the whole family jokes about whenever his grandkids open new toys for Christmas or birthdays. When Poppy was a kid, his mom would make him…
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High Spirits (1988): Halloween movies to get you in the spirit
Halloween can make you horny for ghosts. That’s probably the easiest takeaway from “High Spirits,” the bizarre rom-com from 1988 that bombed at the box office and with critics. The director, Neil Jordan,…
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How to be a Zoom Empress
I have been experimenting with different types of tarot readings, and the latest one was more of a virtual tarot party. As I’ve explained before, I don’t use tarot as fortune telling ……
