Happy No Pants Day!
I love the month of May. It’s one of my 12 favorite months. Flowers are blooming. Summer is around the corner. And the air is thick with the sweet aroma of fresh-cut grass (not from […]
Tag: holidays
Wake Me Up When Valentines Day Is Over
Note: I stumbled upon this post from 2006 recently, and thought it gave an interesting look at my viewpoint at the time–after my first marriage, but before my second. In other words, I’m much happier […]
How the Grinch Spent Christmas
I was in Dollar General— I don’t make this stuff up— When I ran into the Grinch, And his reindeer, the pup. “What brings you to town?” I asked, to be nice. “The last […]
Thanksgiving Found Battered and Beaten In Back Alley. Police Clueless.
The holiday of Thanksgiving was found badly beaten in a back alley today. The holiday, which has been waning in power and influence in the last decade, is now virtually homeless and forgotten as it […]
Was the Real First Thanksgiving All That Real?
Thanksgiving in America continues to be one of the most traditional holidays. It still features the original four hundred year old activities of overeating, football, and complaining about Black Friday. In the Hunter household, as […]
Nancy Pelosi’s Bra, and Other Halloween Scares
Halloween is the scary holiday, and it’s timed perfectly to arrive just before the two scariest spots on the calendar: winter, and elections. It’s hardly surprising, then, that one popular Halloween mask is that of […]
This Bear’s Repeating
Artwork by Lauren Faulkenberry. Idea/text by Bill Spencer. (Bill Spencer is author of Uranus Is Always Funny: Short Essays to Make You Laugh Lauren Faulkenberry is a novelist and illustrator living in western North Carolina. Originally […]
The First Thanksgiving Was … Healthy?
Thanksgiving in America continues to be one of the most traditional holidays. It still features the original four hundred year old activities of overeating, football, and complaining about Black Friday. In the Hunter household, as […]
Bring Back Dangerous Halloweens
Unless you’re one of those people of questionable sanity who likes cold weather, October had little to offer Hoosiers except autumn colors and Halloween. By the end of the month the leaves have started to […]