When we’re feeling down, recovering from an illness, injury, accident, or surgery, nothing picks us back up again quite like a thoughtful get well card from someone who cares about our wellbeing. Even if our symptoms persist, knowing someone cares enough to send us their good thoughts and well wishes for our recovery goes a…
Since the month of September has two special reading-focused days, National Read a Book Day on the sixth and International Literacy Day on the eighth, let’s talk about the many and varied benefits of curling up with a good book. Have you been promising yourself to expand your reading material from emails, social media, and…
World Coconut Day, celebrated on September 2nd every year, is a ceremonial day designated by the Asian and Pacific Coconut Community (APCC) headquartered at Jakarta, Indonesia, and observed by Hindu fishing communities in western India particularly around Mumbai and the Konkan coast. Coconuts represent the 47th-most valuable crop/livestock product by value and have enjoyed a…
With the advent of school days right around the corner come thoughts of fall and the cooler weather it brings to many parts of the country. Are you ready for crisp mornings and cool nights? As the leaves on the trees turn from green to hues of gold, scarlet, and russet brown, it’s time to…
In the United States, National Waffle Day is celebrated August 24, marking the date of a U.S. patent on a waffle iron in 1869 by a man named Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, N.Y. who patented his invention of the stove-top waffle iron. In Sweden, the country where this special day originated, Waffle Day is celebrated…