Another year, another Lent dilemma: Give up booze or not

By Shaun Tumpane
Laguna Woods Globe columnist
Lent. According to the Oxford Dictionary, Lent is the “period preceding Easter that in the Christian Church is devoted to fasting, abstinence and penitence in commemoration of Christ’s fasting in the wilderness.”
Let’s set aside what constitutes the “Christian Church” for the time being.
For God-fearing little Roman Catholic boys and girls, the advent to Lent was always a stressful time. Why? Because every overly d