Feb. 2, 1996
Today's reading: Limericks by William Jay Smith from LAUGHING TIME, published by Farrar Straus Giroux.
Groundhog Day, celebration related to Christian Candlemas, but more commonly associated with the woodchuck who may emerge from hibernation to look for his shadow.
Birthday of Italian mathematician, Lodovico Ferrari, born in 1522.
Writer Mark Twain first used his pen name on this day in 1863.
Birthday of Irish novelist James Joyce, born in Dublin in 1882.
Novelist Ayn Rand born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905.
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.®