During the holidays gifts for bathing are enjoyed by everyone. Luxurious French milled soaps have always been my favorite. You can have both luxury and natural, like the marvelous concoctions Gianna Rose Atelier creates, with great designs and lovely packaging that can be given without needing to wrap (money saving and less paper wasteful). You’ll…
Today, on Thanksgiving, as this painting by Salvador Dali so beautifully reveals, the shock of recognition is eternally real. Gratitude starts with recognition that things are not only real, they can also be surreal. See more at the DALI MUSEUM, and at Virtual DALI to ponder and enjoy inspired feelings of surreal ingenuity. Put yourself…
Veterans Day is a national holiday celebration designated as “a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as ‘Armistice Day’.” Veterans Day 2009 is here Wednesday, November 11th (unless it falls on a Saturday or Sunday, then the holiday is observed the following Monday). I’m…
Only four more days until Halloween, so get your costumes ready if you haven’t already. We love vintage graphics for their “back-to-the-past” time machine glimpse of how it was. Here are some for your pleasure to trigger memory of movies, scary stories, iconic baddies, and then some. With the current craze of Vampire stories and…
HALLOWEEN (also spelled Hallowe’en) is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. Also known as All Saints’ Day, it is considered a secular (non-religious) celebration, but some people feel the holiday has pagan religious overtones because of its roots. Halloween is also called All Hallows or Hallowmas in celebration of saints associated with Christianity. It’s become a…
Many people don’t know that approximately 80% of the flowers sold in the U.S. are imported from South America. Not only is that a huge chunk out of our domestic economy we do not reap any benefits from, they use twenty-five different pesticides that have already been outlawed in America due to their carcinogenic components….
INDEPENDENCE DAY The Fourth of July is Independence Day. As a federal holiday schools, banks, post offices, and government offices are closed in homage to the hard fought Independence from Colonialism (watch out for those “Isms”). The Fourth Of July is our most important national holiday because it celebrates the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration…
A fathers journey is unique in each society and family, but it is a universally held understanding that men have a different role to play from the mothers of the world. This is a huge topic, with endless historical debate including biblical reference to fathers. Fatherhood is a role gone through several transformations from ancient…
MEMORIAL DAY was first observed on May 30, 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the…
Love You Mom! A Tasty SWEETS Tribute to your mother can come from certified organic crisp sugar cookies by Organic Style. Packed in a handy reusable tin with some of the proceeds from each purchase going towards green projects. TIP for today is give mom a gift that is sweet and green. Make every opportunity…