First of the Month: March 2009

Hip-Hip-Hooray, it’s the third month in the Gregorian calendar and boy has March poured along the eastern seaboard with some surprising weather. So as everyone living from Augusta, Georgia, to Augusta, Maine looks in disbelief, I can’t help but remind you that “ March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.” (That's right.) And in between all of that lamb, lion talk there's plenty of celebrations to make you glad that February is over. March is full of great occasions. For example, we're in the midst of Women's History Month; all week long the most populous County, Los Angeles, is calling this "no cussing week"; Sunday the 8th is daylight saving (not savings) time (remember spring forward); St Patty's Day is the 17th, one day before Megan Clark celebrates another birthday; the March Madness of NCAA's Road to the Final Four starts with the 15th’s Selection Sunday, which also is the day the American Legion was founded in 1919; and as crazy as this sounds, Spring starts on the 20th.

And what March be without birthdays? To kick off birthdays a day late let’s celebrate Jon Bon Jovi’s big 47 today, exactly eight days before Canadian director Paul Haggis of “Crash” and “Casino Royale” turns 56 on March 10th – the same day Chuck Norris kicks his way to a stellar 69. On March 16th, we celebrate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s 76th birthday exactly six days before Wolf Blitzer talks about his roots in Buffalo and celebrates his 61st with Andrew Lloyd Webber, who turns the same age and will probably talk about the “Phantom of the Opera” and how he grew up in London’s Phantom area.