Why We Let the Kids Trick or Treat

We let the kids trick or treat last night. We hadn’t planned to.

We had intended to do a parade with close friends from the neighborhood across the street. The kids would be masked and there would be distancing. But when I saw the guest list approaching 80 people, I balked. The scary claws of pandemic-induced agoraphobia reached out, like the demons who would be parading around the neighborhood mansion…