St. Patrick's day transports me back in time – half a lifetime ago or so – to my parochial school days. [pullquote]St. Patrick's Day was popular because we were permitted to swap tie-and-sweater dress code for wild green Irish-inspired costumes.[/pullquote] I attended a Catholic day school, but I wasn't Catholic. St. John's was understood to be the most academically rigorous option within ...
Nostalgia
Cardinal
Like virtually every other child on this wondrous orb I grew up drawing, doodling, playing and creating without limits. Well, no walls. And no permanent marker. This doodle was inspired by a red cardinal school mascot in my earliest years of school. There was a school-wide contest to design a t-shirt logo with the school mascot. I was in second grade, I think. My angular cardinal didn't make the ...