Month: March 2024

March 14, 2024. No one is going to remember what you or I did on this day in a hundred years. In fact, only a few will even know that we existed at all. We will be reduced to a name in a list of ancestors. There’s some...

It is March 15, 2024. We’re halfway through this month that gets its name from the Romans who called it Martius and is the first month in the Roman calendar from 753 BC. Martius is named after Mars, the Roman God of War....

This is my post for March 16, 2024. Another beautiful Spring day lies ahead in Central Florida. The temp will be in the mid-80s, pollen count is off the charts. Northerners are filling Florida’s beaches. Everything appears to be...

It’s St. Patrick’s Day, 2024. This is the day in 432 that the eventual Saint Patrick, at the age of 16 was captured by Irish pirates from Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland for six years before escaping...

It’s now March 18th, 2024. I hope St. Patrick’s Day lived up to your expectations. It is one of my favorite holidays and has been even before I found out that I’m 1/4th Irish. The Vikings, which makes up 75% of my linage,...