My friends,
I hope you all enjoyed Super Tuesday, so named for the abundance of presidential primaries and caucuses held every four years on that day. But without trying to take anything away from anyone—least of all the visitors of those contests—I’m here to suggest that in point of fact, every Tuesday can be super!
A lot of people ask me why I care so much about Tuesdays, and I always start by explaining that it isn’t just about my name (Tuesday), or the fact that I was born on a Tuesday, or that I married a man whose last name bore an uncanny assonance with my first. (“I’ll show you an uncanny assonance,” my husband is fond of saying.) Nor is it because my favorite actress (Tuesday Weld), book (Tuesdays with Morrie), film (If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium), and songs (“Ruby Tuesday,” “Tuesday Afternoon,” “Love You Till Tuesday,” “Tuesday’s Gone”) all feature the word one way or another…