31 Oct Halloween Enchantment

At the end of October, 2012, executive recruiter Emerson Nagel and I were emailing each other about her current risk management job openings when she casually let it drop she'd be putting on a Halloween party (she lives in Mexico) for 250 kids in the neighborhood. 250 kids!!! I was stunned, not to mention impressed, and said so. She wrote back with a description so charming, so filled with generosity and imagination, that I asked her permission to blog it: "These are all kids from our neighborhood, mostly from families that have very little, and they really seem to have fun with it, though it's quite chaotic. Over the years we've made 9 fair-type games: piranha tank grab-bag, pumpkin toss, that kind of thing....