Here it is – Halloween, costumes, parties, candy and … glow sticks!

Itis hard to say when I first cracked a glow stick. With the start of holiday season (or silly season, as some of us like to call it), we will start seeing all types of luminous objects of every color around necks, wrists, heads and any other imaginable object. I love shiny, colorful and, especially, lighted things. I guess I am part crow, a bird known to collect any shiny object in its nest. My room would prove that.

As a child growing up in the ’70s, I vaguely remember a small tube of plastic that, when broken, would turn green.