Marion wore roller skates for trick-or-treating that Halloween in 1950.
When she rolled down Walnut Street to Broadway in Spokane, she could get from door to door and collect lots of treats that way. She was terrifying. She was my mother.
I will tell you that your options seem really limited on a pitch dark Halloween when your mother is rolling around costumed in a sailor suit with cupcake hat. All you pray is that nobody will ask, “Dorothy, is that your mother.?” They always do…