Trick or Treat?

With Halloween just around the corner, no doubt many of you will soon be visited by children playing Trick or Treat.  Those of you with young children might even be supervising Trick or Treat outings of your own!  I thought I would get into the Halloween spirit myself by using Trick or Treat as the theme for this month’s blog post.According to Google’s English Dictionary, provided by Oxford Languages, a trick can be defined as an illusion, or a cunning act or scheme intended to deceive or outwit someone.  A treat can be defined as an event or item that is out of the ordinary and gives great pleasure.  We could think of a trick as something with a misleading first impression that generates an unexpected outcome.  Although this might be positive, as in magic tricks or artistic illusions, in everyday life the word more usually implies a somewhat negative…