National Pie Day was January 23rd this year. I missed it. The “other” pie day is March 14. This Pi Day, the math Pi Day, is the second chance for those people who missed the first one. You know, like me. Like I do every year.
Every year for the past several years in the weeks leading up to January, my friend and colleague Sheri and I have talked for days about how we should make pies for Pie Day, how we should bring them in to work and share them with everyone. How we should get everyone else to make pies and bring them in too. How we could make both savory and sweet pies and have it be a potluck meal. How much fun it would be!
And then we didn’t do it.
So we’d start talking about the March Pi Day, the do-over chance, and why don’t we do it that day instead?
And then we didn’t do it.
Things get in the way. We’re too busy. We’re too tired. We don’t have all the ingredients. Yada yada.
This year I have been thinking about Pie Day alone, because my friend Sheri died last August. I toyed with the idea of making pies myself this year in January.
And then I didn’t do it.
As March 14th approaches, I decided that my heart wasn’t in it and I was going to let the day pass unobserved, just as I usually did. Except then my daughter came home from school and announced, “Mom, we’re going to make pies for Pi Day.”
From the mouths of babes, right?
Karen Creamer Author, Coach, Speaker 