Saint Patrick’s Day

I didn’t do anything Irish and green even though I am.

At the STRAND bookstore in Union Square I bought “Wake Up” by Catholic/Buddhist Jack Kerouac and a book on writing by Joyce Carol Oates, also raised Catholic.

Because it might be the last Wednesday I don’t have to pick up My Kid until 5:30, I felt inclined to see a Broadway matinee because I could and maybe next week I cannot.

I saw Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music with Catherine Zeta Jones and Angela Langsbury.  I saw a summer stock production of the musical when I was in high school.  Apparently I missed a lot when I saw it before.

A relative e-mailed me a St. Patrick’s Day prayer that mentioned God 8 times and Christ 15 times.

I was raised Catholic.