Yes, we’ve turned a corner to March, often seen as a bridge between winter and spring, which happens to be my favorite season! Pretty much when we fall back with the end of Daylight Savings Time, I’m already waiting for…thinking about springing forward, which this year will be on March 9th. Depending on your source, March is named after the planet Mars or the Roman God of war Mars (who knew?) and is synonymous with new growth and rejuvenation.
Here are some more notable fun facts about March.
- It is the most popular month for basketball…March Madness anyone? It also is the worst month for productivity. According to Reader’s Digest U.S. employers lose around $13.3 billion in productivity during the tournament!
- We’ve heard about “beware of the Ides of March” but what does it really mean? The phrase denotes doom and misfortune marking Julius Caesar’s assassination which occurred on March 15th.
- March 20th is the first day of spring also known as the vernal equinox, when the sun is directly over the earth’s equator. I remember walking into my high school earth science classroom on that day with our teacher balancing an egg on his desk. He stated that the gravitational pull was somewhat “equalized” allowing one to balance a raw egg on that day. Many say that is all an “old wives’ tale”…what do you think?
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