A Lighter View
Pie, Potato chips, Paddy and Palms
By K.E.H. Stagg

March 17, 2016

When an office colleague exclaimed, "Today is national pie and potato chip day!" My first thought was, "What a great combination - sugar, salt, and fat altogether."  She said I could find an online pie recipe for a potato chip crust with a chocolate-peanut butter filling, which sounded almost too good to be true. 

I later learned it was national pi day, and boy! What a difference one little letter makes!  It's still possible to find online pie recipes using potato chips, but what a letdown.  The only thing I know about pi is that it has something to do with the circumference and radius of a circle, based on a mathematical formula, and I could be wrong even on that!  Somebody somewhere probably holds pi-themed costume parties, but it's not like St. Paddy's Day where people wear green, hope for good luck, and probably drink too much alcohol.

However, even those of us who don't have more orange than leprechaun in our family tree can get excited about Palm Sunday!  It's the observance of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem in the week leading up to His crucifixion, which was followed by His miraculous resurrection from the grave.  And since that's the lynchpin of salvation, what's not to love about that? Some churches burn the palms waved in celebration and save the remnants to use the following year on Ash Wednesday.

Whether you ate potato chips or green pancakes, or just spent a moment of quiet reflection in gratitude for eternal life, there was a lot happening this week!