Monthly Archives: February 2015

Running Like a Roman (A Word For Ash Wednesday)

It was another one of those festivals for which the ancient Romans were so famous…sort of like a New Orleans Mardi Gras and a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade all rolled into one. The Lupercalia ceremony itself was a fairly peculiar … Continue reading

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Monday Morning Quarterbacking

It was the legendary coach of the University of Texas Longhorns Darrell Royal who once observed that “three things can happen when you throw a football… and two of them are bad.”  And I suspect that Pete Carroll, the coach … Continue reading

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