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Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Thursday, July 02, 2026

Semiquincentennial? I celebrated on June 18th.

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I don't remember all that much about my personal celebration of our nation's bicentennial. The year before, on April 19, 1975, I...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Celebrating Memorial Day (Eve) with The Boss

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I celebrated Memorial Day in the normal way, by walking over to the Boston Common (alas, in the rain - this picture is from a kinder, gentle...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

The Aptly Named SantaCon

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I'm not 100% certain that Boston has SantaCons - a pub crawl where runners/drinkers wear Santa outfits and raise money for charity. But ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

A day late and a flag wave short

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Yesterday was Patriots' Day, and I did what I usually do. I went to the Red Sox game, which on Patriots' Day has an early (11 a.m.) ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

It's Just a Matter of Time (Veterans Day 2025)

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The song's been running through my head a lot lately. I'm singing it in the shower. One of the signal songs, about one of the signal...
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Monday, April 21, 2025

This Patriots' Day, feeling the red, white, and blues

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Today is Patriots' Day,   a holiday that I have always loved . This year should have been a big one, especially in these parts. It's...
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Thursday, April 17, 2025

With $75K you get Egg Roll

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The news that the White House is soliciting corporate sponsors for the annual Easter Egg Roll should come as no surprise. Surely by now we m...
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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Happy National Whatever Day

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Well, I always like to know what I'm dealing with, so I thought I'd check out just what National Whatever Day we're celebrating ...
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Monday, March 17, 2025

Happy St. Patrick's Day (to those who observe it)

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In my  Twitter bluesky profile, I say that I'd rather be in Ireland. And these days, I sometimes actually mean it, or at least kinda-s...
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Thursday, February 13, 2025

And today we're celebrating...

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Well, yesterday was Abraham Lincoln's Birthday. Or, as I've taken to calling it, Abe Lincoln (For Obvious Reasons) Is Rolling Over i...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

A couple of new editions

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I completely appreciate that the timing for Christmas is just terrific, distracting us from our struggle to get through the gloomy dark days...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

This year's N-M Fantasies...

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I do so look forward each year to the Neiman-Marcus Fantasy Gifts Catalog , or, as I like to think of it, the Let Them Eat Cake Spree.  For ...
Monday, September 02, 2024

Labor Day, 2024

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  Oh, we'll still have some hot days - scorchers, even.  And it's still a bit lightish in the evenings.  But there's no doubt ab...
Thursday, July 04, 2024

We are not so not OK (Fourth of July, 2024)

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I love the Fourth of July. I really do. Or I used to.  Cookouts. Fireworks. Pops music. Uncle Sam. Red, white, and blue. Yay! BIG YAY! But t...
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Monday, May 27, 2024

Memorial Day with nothing new to say

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Nothing to say that I haven't said before, other than hoping and in my own atheistic way praying that, when Memorial Day 2025 rolls arou...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

In Your Easter Bonnet

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Well, Sunday is Easter, making today Holy Thursday, when the Last Supper is commemorated. If you went to parochial school back in the day, y...
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