Yesterday was Valentine’s Day, and to show what old couples do on that day, my husband and I bought each other the exact same box of candy! Ha! No, that wasn’t a plan. I guess we just have the same tastes after many, many years.  Then he bought dinner and we had it at home without the crazy crowds. Much better idea and I didn’t have to cook.

I did a little research to find out where the idea of Valentine’s Day came from and found that St. Valentine’s Day was originally a Catholic feast day to honor a third-century priest named Valentine who was executed on February 14. I don’t know if executions are a thing to celebrate, but the holiday has changed dramatically.  But then the Shakespear play Romeo and Juliet has been celebrated for many years. It is about some teenaged kids who had an affair, their families disapproved, and someone died. If the family had left them alone, they would have broken up in a week, anyway. I’m a romantic.

I have the beginnings of a novel on my computer that is a modern day take on the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche. I set the story in modern day and showed how it might have happened today. I gave them modern names with modern problems. I hope to finish it someday. It is a mild comedy with an American mother and a woman who travels to Greece to work in a museum and falls in a love with a guy she meets in a bar – and never sees except at night. Hmmm.

I don’t know how you celebrated the holiday of Valentine’s Day or Galentine’s Day, etc. but I hope you had a good time and didn’t eat too much chocolate.  But whatever you do, make sure you read, write, or create something this week.