Seeking Food and Fellowship on Pi Day
Pi Day is tomorrow, March 14. That’s pi as in 3.14, the irrational number with an infinite number of digits that never repeat. Used to calculate circumference, it’s represented by the Greek symbol p, and, much to my and other people’s happiness—even those of us who are bad a math—it’s caught on as a day […]
Some Inspiration for National Pie Day
Guideposts magazine asked me to write an essay for their website about National Pie Day. I was somewhat reluctant to do it — I had been feeling a little blue about life, a little lonely, and I was busy working on my next memoir (about my misadventures living in the American Gothic House.) But I […]
There’s No Place Like Home (Yes, Eldon, Iowa)
One week ago today I drove to Chicago, to spend the weekend participating in National Pie Day activities. Even though this “pie holiday” should have been as exciting to me as, say, Thanksgiving—after all, pie is “my thing”—it was hard to get enthused about extracting myself from the comfort of my house to make the […]