Halloween is the one day a year where children and child-like
adults dress up, allowing their Id to shine where normally it is hidden. As I dressed this morning my dreams turned
to my daughter Candace, painting my face like one of the cats is the Broadway
play of that title. It would be fun, and
cute, and sexy, all at once. After
careful consideration, my own Id lost out, and I decided to play it safe
without the make-up. As I walked into my
British Literature class I noticed my professor, donning a bandanna with long braided gray hair. I laughed, and made a
comment about how comfortable he must feel dressed in the clothing of his
youth. On the way home from school,
Candace and I stopped at the store to get candy to pass out to the kids of the
neighborhood. Gone are the days when
your mother would pick up a costume of Deputy Dog, the eye holes too small, mom
enlarging the plastic scratchy mask for a more comfortable fit. Tonight, kids showed up in full costumes made
of material and stuffing. They will
never understand what it is like to have the elastic of your mask pull your
hair the entire time you are out begging.
(Brian hates when I call it begging, but I think it is a Detroit-ism
from my youth.) I remember pulling my
mask off at night only to find an alarming amount of hair caught into a
knot. One year I solved this problem by
cutting eye-holes in one of my mother’s white sheets. “Voila”, an instant ghost,
with no pain to my eyes or hair, though if I remember correctly, my line of
sight was quite limited and my friend Lori had to make sure I did not get hit
by a car when we crossed the road.
Today, we do not have children at home to dress up, but we do have our
little dog who sported his pumpkin outfit quite nicely as he took his walk this
morning.
Today’s
crazy school schedule and passing out candy left me with very little time to
create a fancy meal. Tonight’s menu
consisted of falafel, hamburgers and vegetable yogurt salad. I think the yogurt
salad is a must when eating falafel.
Vegetable Yogurt Salad
Chop a quarter cup of cilantro,
half a red onion and half a green pepper and place into a bowl. Add one cup of Middle Eastern plain yogurt,
crush one clove of garlic, one teaspoon of sugar, salt and pepper to
taste. Mix well and serve with the
Falafel. (Oh, and make some hamburgers,
you know how!)
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