I was listening to the radio on the way to the zoo. (Where we visited all of our furry friends. Did you know that four children can amuse themselves by watching a single prairie dog hang out in his cage for twenty minutes?) Anyway, the radio talk show host was discussing how his greeting of “Happy Easter” received a horrified response from a woman who said the word Easter has pagan roots and he should change his greeting to “Happy Resurrection Day.”
He did some research and discovered that Easter’s root word, East, comes from the rising of the sun. So, …read more