Authors
Recent Comments
Category Archives: Holidays
ON THIS DAY: December 29, 2016
December 29th is Pepper Pot Day * Tick Tock Day YMCA USA Day * ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Thomas Beckett, Ellen Terry and Sun Yat-sen, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Bing Crosby, Ellen Terry, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pablo Casals, Sun Yat-sen, Thomas Beckett, William Gladstone
7 Comments
ON THIS DAY: December 28, 2016
December 28th is Card Playing Day Chocolate Candy Day Pledge of Allegiance Day * Endangered Species Act Day * ______________________________________________________________ MORE! Ben Franklin, Maggie Smith and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, click
ON THIS DAY: December 27, 2016
December 27th is Fruitcake Day Visit the Zoo Day Howdy Doody Day * ______________________________________________________________ MORE! Charles Darwin, Marlene Dietrich and Benazir Bhutto, click
ON THIS DAY: December 26, 2016
December 26th is Candy Cane Day Thank-you Note Day Spiced Caramel Apple Martini Day _____________________________________________________________ MORE! Charles Babbage, Madame Curie and George Gershwin, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Charles Babbage, George Gershwin, Kwanzaa, Madame Curie, Tennessee Williams, The Beatles, W.C. Handy
2 Comments
TCS: A Very British Holiday – BOXING DAY
Good Morning! ____________________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, The Coffee Shop, United Kingdom
Tagged A Very British Holiday - BOXING DAY, Alms for the Poor, Christmas, Christmas Box, St. Stephen, TCS
Comments Off on TCS: A Very British Holiday – BOXING DAY
ON THIS DAY: December 24, 2016
December 24th is Eggnog Day * ______________________________________________________________ MORE! Franz Gruber, Noël Streatfeild and Enrico Caruso, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Enrico Caruso, Franz Gruber, George Washington, James Cook, Kit Carson, Matthew Arnold, Noël Streatfeild
Comments Off on ON THIS DAY: December 24, 2016
ON THIS DAY: December 23, 2016
December 23rd is Festivus * Clement Moore Day * HumanLight Day * National Bake Day Wassail Day National Pfeffernüsse Day National Roots Day ______________________________________________________________ MORE! George Washington, Vincent Van Gogh and Carol Ann Duffy, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Carol Ann Duffy, Clement C. Moore, Engelbert Humperdinck, George Washington, Harriet Monroe, Norman Maclean, Vincent Van Gogh
Comments Off on ON THIS DAY: December 23, 2016
Word Cloud: WINDOWS
by Nona Blyth Cloud Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. ………………………… – Dave Eggers The view from Dave Eggers’ bathroom window is a close match to the view from my kitchen window. … Continue reading
Posted in Emily Dickinson, Holidays, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Joseph Brodksy, Kenn Nesbitt, Nancy McCleery, Robert Louis Stevenson, Windows, Winter Solstice
Comments Off on Word Cloud: WINDOWS
ON THIS DAY: December 22, 2016
December 22nd is Date Nut Bread Day Anne & Samantha Day * National Re-Gifting Day * National Cookie Exchange Day ______________________________________________________________ MORE! Giacomo Puccini, ‘Lady Bird’ Johnson, and Samantha Smith, click
Posted in Aviation, History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged 'Lady Bird' Johnson, Anne Frank, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Giacomo Puccini, Kenneth Rexroth, Samantha Smith, William Tecumseh Sherman
Comments Off on ON THIS DAY: December 22, 2016
Nicole Plyler Fisk
Gene Howington
FFS Guest Blogger
Joy of Fishes
Chuck Stanley
shortfinals
Terry Welshans
ann li-summers
wordcloud9
Flowers For Socrates 