I saw this idea at Mommybrain and at Life in a Shoe. It’s a sampling of the year 2005 here at Semicolon, the first sentence of the first post in each month of the year.

January: As far as I can determine the SSA has replacement Social Security cards in a “lockbox” since 9/11.

February: I was standing in line at the grocery store today, and I noticed the Time magazine cover story: 25 Most Influential Evangelicals.

March: (St. David’s Day)The patron saint of Wales is Saint David, or Sant Dewi as the Welsh call him.

April: Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you’ve lost the whole thing.–W.S. Merwin

May: King James I of England established a committee of scholars to produce a new translation of the Bible in English.

June: A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. –Gertrude Stein

July: Calling all U.S. citizens, how will you celebrate the Fourth of July?

August: Picture Book Preschool is a preschool/kindergarten curriculum which consists of a list of picture books to read aloud for each week of the year and a character trait, a memory verse, and activities, all tied to the theme for the week.

September: I would also suggest donations to the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention for relief efforts in connection with Hurricane Katrina.

October: Emily Post, b. 1873, d. 1960. She was born Emily Price, daughter of a wealthy architect and his wife.

November: My Tired Little Chicken

December: Rex Stout, b. 1886. Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin are two of my very favorite fictional detectives.

So there you have it: poetry and roses and chickens and birthdays and Social Security problems. Where else can you get all that and more? Only at Semicolon.