It’s Mardi Gras. Or Fat Tuesday. Also, Shrove Tuesday. Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Christian season of lent. I’m probably goobering up the history, but I think the Mardi Gras tradition came from having to cook up and eat all the “good” stuff in the house for the fasting associated with …
“The guy who runs this building I’m in, emergency management, he’s responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in a St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, ‘Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?’ [starting to cry] And he said, ‘Yeah, Mama, somebody’s coming to get you. Somebody’s coming to …
