My great-great Aunt Sue had a eccentric costume for every occasion. Here she is, as the (Jewish) Spirit of Christmas Creepy. My poor grandmother never knew what she’d be wearing when she’d show up for family events. Many found it frightening, Aunt Sue just thought it was festive.

Of the number of questions this picture makes me ask myself, the only one I can focus on is, why the tamborine?

Yes, for those of you who were wondering, that’s the bar that is now falling apart, in the background.

A while back, I mentioned that my friend Katey had been asked to write an article about blogging for Western North Carolina Women, to go with the a cluster of her blog entries that they wanted to print. Well, it has arrived, in both print and web versions, and I have linked profusely, just as I promised. Go take a look, if you’d like.