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Halloween origins

30 Oct 2019

A New Look at Halloween: who loves it and why?

It’s Halloween, the time to celebrate death. ghosts, goblins, vampires, and zombies. It’s the time you get to be someone or something else. For me, it’s the holiday when costumed strangers show up uninvited and demand some form of extortion … Read More

Halloween, Halloween origins, Linus Owens, millennials, Nicholas Rogers, Samira Kawash
2 Nov 2016

A Cultural Look at Halloween

It’s Halloween as I write this. I have long wondered what the appeal is for Halloween. I think I turned sour on it when my kids got to be Trick or Treat age and costumes and candy became the focus. … Read More

Adele Davis, Feralia, Halloween, Halloween origins, Janet Givens author, Pomona, Pope Boniface IV, Pope Gregory III, Samhain, the roots of Halloween, Trick or Treat, Trick or Treat and suburban sprawl, You Are What You Eat
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LEAPFROG: How to hold a civil conversation in an uncivil era

“Janet’s LEAPFROG describes— in an accessible and fun way— the nuts and bolts of how to have a civil conversation…”

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At Home on the Kazakh Steppe:A Peace Corps Memoir

Praise from Kirkus Review

“…she writes engagingly … a sharp-eyed journalist. A worthwhile read for anyone with an interest in humanitarian work.”

At Home on the Kazakh Steppe, A Peace Corps Memoir, by Janet Givens
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