March = Madness
March is a very special month for me. It is the month of my birth and also the month that our youngest granddaughter was born (one day after my birthday). It is the month that some garden bulbs start too send forth small green shoots. Days start to get noticeably longer, the average outside temperature starts to increase and more birds are visible. March is also one of the oddest months of the year weather-wise. One day it can be like a Winter day and the next a Spring day and once in awhile a Summer day appears. So it is not surprising that so much of what happens in "My Month" is shall we say "quirky". As a child, I quickly realized that my birthday was always during Lent and as a result I never had any big birthday parties. Lent was a time that we ate more simply, never any sweets and we never relented from that discipline, even on Sundays. It wasn't until I was an adult and chose to become an Episcopalian that I learned that Lent is forty days long