National Reading Month

National Reading Month

Little known fact: March is National Reading Month. In honor of Dr. Seuss, who was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904, National Read Across America Day was first held on March 2, 1998 – and now that 24-hour celebration of reading extends for the full month of March. Designed to encourage people of all ages to dive into a good book, National Reading Month tries to remind us all of the magic worlds waiting to be discovered, no further away than your bookshelf.   I come from a ...

Celebrating Irish Heritage Month

                  My husband is Irish. His grandparents were both born and raised in Ireland; his father born in Ireland before immigrating to America at a very young age.  So, of course, he has always been interested in his Irish roots. To celebrate our wedding anniversary, we planned a 2-week trip to Ireland to dig deeper into my husband's ancestry.  We finally decided on a bus coach tour to see all the sites starting in Dubl ...