Happy Pi Day and happy birthday to Albert Einstein. My column in Small Town Newspaper addresses these occasions, but the article isn't posted online, so please go read it at Open Salon. I'd be honored.
What is it with people and Cindy Loo Who? Of my last one hundred blog hits, forty have been direct visits from regular readers, and fifteen have been as a result of people searching for "Cindy Loo Who," the little pixie from Seuss's How The Grinch Stole Christmas . A couple of years ago, I posted an image of the original Seuss illustration as compared to the TV cartoon image, and for some reason, that post is bringing in the crowds, relatively. Maybe it's the weather. It isn't even November yet, and already we've had frost and have had to dust off our winter coats. When it gets cold like this, I start to think about Christmasy things like listening to Nat King Cole and decorating the tree. It's ironic because I am offended when retailers start pushing holiday stuff early, but I don't mind my own private celebrations. When my sister and I were much younger and still living with our parents, we would pick a day in July, close the curtains to darken the ...
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What a lovely and inspirational piece you have written. Regrettably we on the right hand side of the pond have anything up to 31 months of 12 days apiece in our calendar so we cannot join in your celebrations.