Making each and every day fun!
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April 29th is Greenery Day – time to recommit yourself to the beautification of the world around you by planting things everywhere. Preferably in places you own. For most of us, this means laying in some new sod, casting some overseed, or simply spray-painting the dead stuff out front, because your neighbor refuses to make [...]
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ~ Robert Frost April 28th is Great Poetry Reading Day. My college professor’s eyebrows jumped as he scanned the pages we handed in, his forehead breaking into tight lines as he stared at one particular sheet of paper. [...]
April 27th is Tell a Story Day. Forever ago, the hunters and gatherers were important to our daily lives, feeding us and keeping us safe — but who owned the nights, as we huddled together for long, dark hours by the fire? The storytellers had us during those hours, weaving tales that reminded us of [...]
April 26th is National Pretzel Day. I can’t walk into a mall without going through that inner struggle… I want a fresh soft pretzel. I always will. The dough-slinging muses know this, as they coyily smile through the flour-encrusted glass, beckoning me to wreck my ship upon their rocky shoals of buttery goodness. I have [...]
April 21st is National High Five Day. There are many different ways to properly deliver this most hallowed of public male demonstrations of acceptance. Let me take a bit of time to help you along with this one… Safe, Tried and True Standard High Five – Up high, very relaxed, as you pass each [...]
April 20th is Volunteer Recognition Day — a day for us to realize that while we are spending our off hours at home enjoying a good dinner or relaxing in front of the television, someone, somewhere in our community is putting in a few extra hours to lift up others in need. It’s not about [...]
April 19th is Garlic Day. Whenever I head up to the San Francisco Bay area, I pass through the small town of Gilroy, garlic capital of the world. Oh my God, the whole town smells like an Olive Garden restaurant! They farm it in every nook and cranny of land, and are fiercely proud of [...]
We are surrounded by closet clowns. You see them, in the corners of your eye, as you look around at fairgrounds, concerts, mall parking lots and farmers markets. While you were spending your high school years trying to blend in with the crowd, they stood against the stream. Well, not technically. They rode their unicycles [...]
I’ve always dreamed of being a writer. A damn good writer. Someone that finds himself sitting at a tiny table in a New York bookstore, signing a hardcover book and adding some pithy statement. Perhaps for some yawning office worker, who says to me ”I don’t get your stuff, but my son can’t seem to [...]
“Humor is tragedy plus time.” ~ Mark Twain Seriously. It’s pretty bad out there these days. Natural disasters, job losses, gas prices, and another Transformers movie soon. We’re not waiting for the next shoe to drop anymore — we’re waiting for it to hit us upside the noggin. Hard. How do we deal with it? [...]