First, Happy Birthday to all of you celebrating your 15^th – 19^th birthdays, regardless of your actual age.

Why do we have leap years? Wikipedia will tell you more than you may ever want to know, but basically it has to do with planet rotation and the synchronization of our calendar to the astronomical or seasonal calendar. The other option considered was to add a couple of minutes to each day. Even thinking about that confuses me. I’d probably fritter away those minutes – or sleep though them.

But a whole day! That has possibilities. It feels like a bonus. Maybe it’s a time to leap into something new. I’m planning on finding a museum I’ve never visited, a walk in a park, and a new restaurant. I’ll bring a notebook to write down new ideas and come home rested, inspired and reenergized.

What will you do?