Driving Kelly and Claire to school this morning, I noticed the date on the VW dash: 01-11-10. I said, “That’s an odd looking date.”

Kelly looked at it and said, “Hey, that’s a palindrome! Same forwards as backwards.” She then quickly calculated that 01-02-2010 was another one that just happened. I had a hard time visualizing it as quickly as the girls were able to. (I need a VW dashboard crutch.) But she is right.

I then asked, “Do palindromes involves letters and words only, or do they include numbers?” Without Google in the car, we could not answer the question, but sure enough, there are palindromic numbers. Cool.

And in seeing the spelling, is Sarah Palindromic?