The "That's a Holiday?!" Podcast

It's Saturday, May the 2nd, 2015 and today is Join Hands Day. This is not a day to surgically attach your hands together. Every first Saturday in May is a national day of volunteering with an emphasis on the young and old working together in their communities. This is intended to begin a year-round process of relationship building among the generations.

It's Friday, May 1, 2015, and today is Law Day.

A day totally dedicated to celebrating the rule of law and recognizing the role of courts in the U. S. of A. This is a national observance in the U.S. although not a federal holiday, so unfortunately no day off work. Which seems like an injustice!

It's Thursday, April 30, 2015 and today is International Jazz Day. Today celebrates this uniquely American musical style that has crossed cultural boundaries, nationalities, ethnicities, and all that jazz.

It's Wednesday, April 29, 2015 and today is International Guide Dog Day. One of the best of the dog days, this day recognizes the helpfulness of these skilled creatures in providing accessibility to the blind or vision-impaired.

It's Tuesday, April 28th, 2015 and today is Blueberry Pie Day. This is not a day to be blue. It celebrates the deliciousness that is Blueberry Pie!

It's Monday, April 27th, 2015 and today is Confederate Memorial Day. This day is controversial as it remembers the deaths of confederate soldiers in the Civil War. Many simply want to recognize the deaths of these men, while others see this as a vestige of a slave-holding era. Nevertheless this day is celebrated on varying days by many southern states including Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee

 It's Sunday, April 26, 2015 and today is National Pretzel Day.“Two pretzels were walking down a street. One was assaulted.” Today celebrates the baked dough tied into a knot and salted.

It's Saturday, April 25, 2015 and today is Hairball Awareness Day. Beware. Today, might be nausea-inducing. This hairball awareness day is one of the more strange holidays, because, really, isn't the sound your cat makes enough to make you aware of hairballs?

It's Friday, April 24, 2015 and today is Arbor Day. This day celebrates trees and tree-planting, and it·s one of our oldest national observances. How can we tell? By counting the rings!

Arguably one of the longest-named holidays, Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day is every fourth Thursday in April across the world. It encourages people to show their workplace and occupation to not only their own children, but children without parents as well. That’s why it’s called “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.” You almost missed it with all those other words didn’t you?