In All Hallows, a well written trip down memory lane, Jim Coudal reminds us in a touching way how holidays and people we cherish are indelibly linked. Which shows that there is more than commerce at work in Halloween. Read the piece or listen to it. Related: Halloween a la Chow: Passing the Bar and the Punching Bowl

Halloween Night My wife once took a job for a local florist painting a multitude of pumpkins for not as many dollars. I suggested that her designs would have been less time consuming and more profitable had she offered them instead as themes for t-shirts or that type of things. I did not think until reading For These Sculptors, The Medium Is Big, Orange and Stinky (Susan Warren, Wall Street Journal) that Mega Pumpkin Sculptor...