During this season, life is about the kids. This is a time of magic, wonder, and things that go bump in the night. Halloween has always been a favorite holiday for most children in the United States but this year, Halloween, the way it has been celebrated for decades, is canceled. Have a nature Halloween. Right in time to give a final push for the Biden-Harris ticket, Irish author Kathleen Kelley Reardon shares her newest novel, Damned If She Does, as it ”artfully stirs what Kirkus Reviews describes as a dangerous cauldron of ambitious scholars. Informed and searing in her takedown of ivory tower politics, Reardon makes us work for answers throughout the page-turning scenes of this MeToo whodunit. She writes in her blog, “No use dignifying Trump’s sexist low blows. Better to make him squirm.” We confuse our many acquaintances and business associates with friends. We go for quantity, not quality. True friends are among the most important people in one’s life.