When I was a kid I spent days building the perfect trap for a leprechaun. I checked out every book on magical creatures and mythology I could find, just so I could try and find the perfect bait. The night before St. Patrick’s Day I carefully set my trap and bait it with whatever I …
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In my previous post about the colors around Saint Patrick’s Day, Why Do We Wear Green For St. Patrick’s Day?, I briefly mentioned that one of the original colors associated with Saint Patrick was blue. That’s right, we could all be wearing Saint Patrick’s Blue instead of vibrant shades of green to celebrate the 17th …
Every year on March 17th people around the world celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by wearing their greenest apparel. As someone with a form of colorblindness, I am always interested to learn about colors, especially ones that I can’t really see. So I took it upon myself to dig into the history of the color green …
It’s that time of year again, the time when green is everywhere. Yep, you guessed it it’s time for St. Patrick’s Day. As a kid I never wondered why we celebrated this particular holiday. When I got a little older I took the opportunity to look into the origins and history of the holiday. Now …
This year’s theme is “I Am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights”. This is a campaign by the UN to bring together people of every gender, age, ethnicity, race, religion, and country, to drive actions that will create a gender-equal world.
