Paste Up Day - This is a day that is all about old school technology before desktop publishing and digital anything. Paste up was when the headline and type for an article would be cut into pieces and arranged across columns for a newspaper or other publication. I am not sure who created this day or why this particular day was selected for this holiday.
National Barrier Awareness Day - Proclaimed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, this is a day to acknowledge the fact that millions of people live their lives with some sort of barrier...and believe me, there are a whole lot of them that can affect any of us at some point in our lives for a short time, a long time, or even for the rest of our lives. Sometimes these barriers are physical disabilities but they don’t have to be. There are also financial and cultural barriers that can stop us from doing what we want to do when we want to do it. The successful people among us are the ones that find a way to overcome our barriers and don’t let them stop us from living our lives to the fullest.
National Cosmopolitan Day - An alcoholic beverage that generally uses vodka, lime and various juices such as cranberry. This day was created by Jace Shoemaker-Galloway who probably likes to drink them now and then. Otherwise, why bother making a special day for them?
National Tourism Day – The theme for this years’ National Tourism Week is “Travel ‘16’.” The blank spot is to encourage everyone to be creative in defining what effect tourism has on the lives of…..everyone. Since this is an event that is promoting tourism, the effects they talk about are all positive. You know the kind of thing I mean, quality time spent together, new experiences, adventure, etc. As a mother of three, I think about all of that, but I also think about the headaches, the entire family crammed into the same small hotel room every day for a week, the effort expended trying to convince the kids that museums can be fun too, and we didn't come all this way and spend all this money to stay in the hotel swimming pool all week long.
Great Lakes Awareness Day - Also celebrated on the Monday of the first full week in May, today is a day to become aware of the natural phenomenon called the Great Lakes. Perhaps you are saying, aren’t all lakes great? And you would be right. All lakes are great for boating, swimming, canoeing, kayaking, jet skiing, etc. But perhaps you are not aware that some lakes are greater than others. We have, right in this country...near the top if you don’t have a map in front of you...5 bodies of water that are seriously Great Lakes. Now don’t get too excited, because we share four of them with Canada, so they are not all ours. These five are the greatest of the great lakes and I can even name them for you in order of biggest to smallest...not because I went to public school and memorized them, although I did, but because my children taught me how to use google, whereupon I realized that although I remembered all the names, I did not remember how big they are. So we have Lake Superior, aptly named since it is the biggest and therefore the most superior; Lake Huron, do they have a lot of herons on Huron?; Lake Michigan, bet you can’t guess what state it resides in; Lake Erie, did you know there was an Erie tribe of Native Americans who lived there at one time?; and Lake Ontario, which connects us to Ontario in Canada...I bet you didn’t know that. Did you also know that the Niagara Falls lie along the river connecting Lake Erie to Lake Ontario?
National Roast Leg Of Lamb Day – Another dinner dilemma solved today. If you need a recipe, try this one.
Melanoma Monday – Celebrated on the first Monday in May, this day highlights the deadliest form of skin cancer there is. One American dies from melanoma every hour. However, if it is detected before it spreads, the five year survival rate is 98%. So we need to wear orange today to help spread awareness and work to teach people how to detect this devastating cancer as early as possible.
National Meeting Planners Appreciation Day - Celebrated on Monday of the first full week in May, this is a day to recognize that important meetings and conventions wouldn’t happen without someone to plan them. I know that for many of us, meetings are the bane of our existence. We certainly have a lot of them. For some of us, going from one meeting to the next all day long, is the way we live day to day. That is probably a little too much. But some of those meetings are probably important so make sure you thank the person who planned them. Speaking of meetings, someone needs to plan a family meeting so we can figure out how to get Great Aunt Ginny to stop hanging her neon colored underwear in the bay window for the world to see.
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