March 2026 Monthly Blog
Happy Pisces Month all of you March birthday people! I share my birthday and year with my downstairs neighbor. Isn’t that the most “small world” kind of thing? For a brief second, when I found out that Helene and I shared March 5th, I thought maybe we also shared the hospital in which we were born. But that wasn’t to be. Granted, the hospitals were only a few miles apart, but different hospitals indeed. So, the bottom line is that we aren’t long lost twins, although our back east accents are quite similar. My daughter’s birthday is 2 weeks later than mine, the 19th, and Tahlia’s is the 20th. Last year we had a blow out party for all three of us and got a birthday cake that we shared with Barnaby. He loves icing, and who wouldn’t? We might do the same this year. Barnaby is looking forward to this being a tradition for him.
I read my astrological forecast for the month and I’m glad to say that Jupiter is finally cooperating. I don’t hold onto the finer points, well even the major points, of astrology so can’t remember if Jupiter is cooperating because he’s leaving or coming. One way or the other, it’s a big deal. What would be an even bigger deal is if I could figure out why I still have so many emails in my email box. Every day I try to delete emails from the day as well as from 2024. How emails from 2024 suddenly appeared in the email box is beyond me. I thought that I had deleted everything from before November of 2025, but they’re mysteriously there. I don’t know about you, but I find deleting much easier on my phone since I can use my finger and just swipe up or down to select many emails at once. I send them all away with the delete button. On the laptop I apparently have to do one at a time. Today I became so disgusted that I simply put my one finger on the icon for the garbage can and just pressed repeatedly while the chosen emails disappeared. My fear is that they’ll mysteriously reappear next year like bad pennies. At least right now I feel virtuous.
March is also the month for the Ides of March. I think the ides appear in each month, but Shakespeare wrote about Julius Caesar for March so Ides in March are notable. I wonder if the seers back then took classes to interpret bird entrails (Caesar was supposed to listen to those guys because bad times for him were predicted). I’ll have to look that up. “Alexa-- was there a class for reading bird entrails back in Caesar’s day?” My friends who have Alexa are not overjoyed with the newest AI version that’s out there now. They’re feeling as if Alexa is trying to be too friendly and crossing boundaries. I’ve never read Nostradamus’s writings, but I have no memory of anyone saying that he predicted this boundary issue for “over friendly Alexa.” What is the world coming to, I ask. Of course, we also have St. Patrick’s Day on the 17th and Palm Sunday on the 29th. It’s a full month.
Before I wrap up, I have a physics/chemistry question. Diana, the daughter, claims that when she sears brisket in the Dutch oven it gets crispy brown, but if she does it in the pan it doesn’t come out as crispy. The pan is one of those large nonstick pans. Why is that? I feel as if I should know this but my physics classes used the inside of cars as examples for everything and my chemistry class was in high school off the hallway where the bad boys played craps. I’m afraid my attention in the chemistry class was easily diverted to the hallway as they skipped classes and whooped without any reservation when one of them rolled an 11. Anyway, it’s the searing that I’m wondering about. If you have any tips or answers, please let me know.
I hope to see you at our meeting on the 22nd. We’re talking about Jean Luc Bennelac’s Death in Brittany. RSVP on the website www.acozydeath.com. Don’t forget that our meeting in April (the 26th) has the author Landis Wade sharing with us. Folks, his new book Deadly Gold Rush is still free on KIndle if you have Kindle Unlimited. It’s really a good read and Landis is an excellent speaker. Please join us.
Fondly,
Karin