Luck of the Irish

St. Patrick’s Day has always been one of my favorite holidays. I’m 1/4th Irish, and that translates to pale bespeckled skin, a love of Irish pubs, and endless amounts of corned beef and cabbage gobbled each year (though the whole ‘Irish temper’ thing seems to have evaded me). So, I generally bust out my favorite green frocks on 17 March without fail to celebrate and I was pretty excited with this year’s selection…. U nbenounced to many, St Patrick’s Day actually has very little to do with drinking copious amounts of green beer (shocker, I know). It commemorates the death of St. Patrick (the most prominent patron saint of...