March 2020 - St. Patrick's Day
Tomorrow morning, my children will wake up and run to check their shoes. Inside, they will find potatoes put there by the Leprechauns. And they will be excited about it much like normal American children check their stockings on Christmas morning. Nora already was talking on and on about it on the way to school this morning – “What if a Leprechaun got stuck in my shoe while putting a potato there?” Every year I wonder about her telling her teacher and classmates about this magical event only to find that she was the only child visited by the Leprechauns overnight. We’ll have to kick that can down the road for at least another year thanks to COVID-19. I’m sure that many of you are as bewildered by this tradition as Nora’s friends would be. This is strictly a Murray family tradition. And while my brothers are reading this and nodding their heads, ...