One of my favorite authors is David Sedaris, and my favorite story of his, "Jesus Shaves" involves Easter. While living in France, Sedaris enrolled in a french class taught by a woman inspired by Attila the Hun, and one day, Sedaris and his and his fellow classmates attempted to explain Easter in french, with all the glory of their limited vocabulary, to a muslim student:

"He call his self Jesus and then he die one day on two . . . morsels of . . . lumber."

"Easter is a party for to eat of the lamb, one too may eat of the chocolate."

"The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate."

However you intend to spend the day, have a Happy Easter. It's a glorious spring day here in Southern California. And fingers crossed that my mother included some malted milk eggs in my basket.