Thus endeth the month formerly known as the second month of the year. Behind such innocuous nomenclature lurk evil, despair, and doom. Well, maybe not doom, since we escaped with our lives and part of our sanity. Dinner with friends on the first of the month, Friday-end-of-the-school-week on the last—those are the bookends on a twenty-nine day excursion through the nether regions of the earth. Next to the entries for Sheol and Hades in our Hebrew/Greek dictionary, I have penciled in 02/2008. But I think you get the point. More »