From ghosts and ghouls galore to carved rows of corn to displays that put your porch pumpkin to shame, there are a host of places nearby to get you into Halloween mode.

Remember when a playground was nothing but a world of fun ways to be? When you didn’t overthink what you wanted to do first or how well it would go, you just started doing it?

Halloween is the second most celebrated event of the year. Here is one reason why.

“Daddddd, can we go to the mall???” It’s son number two, beseeching me to convey him and his older brother to the mall 30 miles from where I’ve horizontally parked myself on the chesterfield after a day of assiduously applying my nose to the grindstone. “Jimmy’s mom says new cards are in!”

Due to the nature of their work, military veterans and first responders are significantly more likely to experience higher rates of behavioral health conditions.

I have dreamt of soaring down miles-long descents between the sentinels of the Alps. I also realized that the window of opportunity to be able to climb to the tops of those descents was closing. This would be the summer.

It was a beautiful fall day. Typical for an early September day. The sun shone bright, while the temperature was absolutely perfect. No humidity. Arguably the most perfect fall day.

John Saunders is a director. He is also the producing artistic director of The Mac-Haydn Theatre in Chatham, NY, having taken that role when Lynne Haydn passed away in 2018; co-founder Linda MacNish passed in 2002.

On the heels of Artificial Intelligence-laden graduation speeches that audiences met with full-throated boos, this moment lends some financial gravitas to the emotional backlash against AI. In its purest version, the question is, “What should the future of work be?”