LOOSE ENDS: Numbering the days

Copious lists that start with the phrase “ there are only ___ days left” are proliferating these days. Those dates were set on the calendar together as days to be celebrated by the majority of Americans. More importantly, the holiday preparations for specific meals, well as the expansion of the number, expense and kind of gifts to be given were affected. The school calendar began to include earlier dates or expanded later dates to insure…