History.com offers up "6 Surprising Facts About Valentine's Day," including the fact that St. Valentine was likely more than one person and that a medieval English poet might have invented Cupid's Big Day. "The medieval English poet Geoffrey Chaucer often took liberties with history, placing his...
It's around the corner. A new year approaching right on schedule. So we start making resolutions in the hope that life will be different (and better). Truth is nothing is guaranteed except change: for better – or for worse – new is the only given....
On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday of November to be the national holiday of Thanksgiving, which evolved into a story of traditions old and new, a day of family, feasting, and football. And all that is good, but is it...
When World War II began, advertisers argued that celebrating Father’s Day was a way to honor American troops and support the war effort. By the end of the war, Father’s Day may not have been a federal holiday, but it was definitely a national institution....
The greatest love is a mother’s; Then comes a dog’s, then comes a sweetheart’s, Polish proverb. Mother’s Day is always celebrated on the second Sunday in May, so Sunday, May 12, 2019. Though it is not a federal holiday, Mother’s Day is widely celebrated as a...
Did you know that over 50 million roses are given for Valentine’s Day each year? Personally I prefer the bouquet of poems Telluride Inside… and Out will be publishing this week, starting with the following exotic arrangement by beloved poet and friend Rosemerry Trommer, Telluride's...
Perusing the Internet for what more to say about Father’s Day, we came upon some interesting, though relatively obscure facts. During the 1920s and 1930s, a movement arose to scrap Mother’s Day and Father’s Day altogether in favor of a single holiday: Parents’ Day. Every...
Mother’s Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”) as a day dedicated to peace. In 1907, Philadelphian Ana Jarvis began a campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day. She persuaded her mother’s...
Google “last minute Xmas gifts” and 100s of ideas show up, among my favorites: a gift of your time, like offering to babysit for your friends’ progeny; tickets to a sporting event or concert; a charitable donation in a friend or loved one’s name; or...
Thanksgiving marks the start of the holiday season. But times they a tryin' – even without your parents breaking out the photos from your awkward years, even minus the inevitable food coma, soWord Woman Rosemerry Trommer suggests we simply stop, inhale – and smell the...
