Most weeks I share a light hearted, even funny “celebration” day but this week is little different becuase today I’m highlighting Restless Leg Awareness Day. I’m doing this because Restless Leg Syndrome (also known as Willis-Ekbom disease) is something that runs in my mother’s side of the family and I have it as well. While it’s not something that can kill… Read more »
We are 2 weeks into my favorite season- football season! I’m an NFL junkie. I’m a fantasy football league commissioner, I’m in a suicide/ pick ’em pool with a group of friends, and a long-suffering Miami Dolphins and Minnesota Vikings fan. I just love it and have since I was in college and interested in a guy who watched… Read more »
Today is National Collect Rocks day. This day holds a special place in my heart as my Granny Marquardt was a rock enthusiast. Her basement was full of shelves and bags and boxes rocks from all over the United States. They pretty much all looked like to me, but to her each one had a (usually very long) story that… Read more »
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again- Why can’t we all just get along? Between folks who are poor sports when their teams lose (or win), folks who think someone not standing during the national anthem is a crisis, and folks who are very opinionated about their choice for the next President it seems like everyone is very… Read more »
I hope everyone is having a nice holiday weekend. I’m fighting off some kind of sore throat/ cough thing and just not feeling creative. So instead, of my usually scheduled musings, please enjoy the latest single by my Hall Pass aka Jon Bon Jovi and company, titled “This House is Not For Sale” courtesy of Vevo.
There IS an actual national ex- spouse day, which is April 14th. However, I’m celebrating it today because today is the birthday of my ex-husband Scott. Scott and I were married for 8 years and there are a multitude of reasons why it didn’t last longer. Many stem from us simply marrying too young. Perhaps partially because of that lack… Read more »
Today is Individual Rights Day. Normally I save my “special day” post for later in the week, but this one feels so timely I had to talk about it in my weekly long post. Today we honor John Locke, a philosopher born in this day in 1632, who wrote extensively about the rights of each individual person that they earn… Read more »
Today is International Strange Music Day. This day was created by Patrick Grant, a musician from New York City and is named after a song he wrote called, oddly enough, Strange Music. The idea is to expose yourself to, and perhaps even perform, strange music. What’s strange? Well, you can take it one of two ways- #1 Music that’s foreign… Read more »
The word “conspiracy” has been thrown around a lot lately. It used to be mostly by people who were a little excentric claiming cover ups of things like alien autopsies, who really shot JFK, and the whereabouts of Elvis Presley. But lately this term has been thrown around quite a bit in the political arena as well. Accusations are being… Read more »
Black Cat Appreciation Day was created by animal shelters to celebrate the awesome mini-panthers you can share your home with. Partially because of silly superstitions about them being bad luck black cats are the least likely to get adopted and therefore the most likely to get euthanized simply for the color of their coat. I personally live with 2… Read more »