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Panda Day
The first pandas arrived at the National Zoo in 1972. I was 1, and didn’t care. But when I was a little older and visiting my grandparents in Virginia, I was all about the bamboo loveys. I honestly don’t remember … Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, Family, Pandas, Recognition Day, Travel, Zoo
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Everything You Think Is Wrong Day
I don’t know, does this really warrant a blog post? Maybe I’m wrong about this. This is another one of those things that feels like every day for me—or at least every other day. I like to think that remembering … Continue reading
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Tagged Family, Hubris, Humility, Philosophy, Recognition Day, Relationships
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Popcorn Lovers Day
Like a lot of you, my childhood memory of popcorn is not instant gratification taking too long. It was oil in a pot with a lid. (My grandmother used bacon grease, which was pretty great.) I remember when I was … Continue reading
Hitchcock Day
I talked pretty recently about my love of Hitchcock movies and how that started with my dad showing Rebecca and Shadow of a Doubt as part of a library series. I realize it’s not politically correct to appreciate Hitchcock these … Continue reading
Johnny Appleseed Day
Am I alone in the impression that Johnny Appleseed has gone the way of quicksand and the Bermuda Triangle? I heard a lot about all three of those things as a kid but they have virtually disappeared from the cultural … Continue reading
Fill Our Staplers Day
“If they take my stapler, then I’ll set the building on fire.” For a long time, Office Space was a friend test for me: If you’d heard of it, you were OK, if you’d seen it and laughed, you were … Continue reading
Proofreading Day
Another day commemorating a big part of my professional career. I used to have an anonymous blog where I collected typos and other gaffes that I caught and fixed as an editor, but it was so anonymous that I can’t … Continue reading
Flapjack Day
I never referred to pancakes as flapjacks, but my grandfather told me once that my great-great-grandfather called them that. This tracks with the Google AI factoid that people started using “pancake” in the 1870s. (Google also informed me that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Breakfast Musings, Family, Food Musings, Recognition Day
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Arwen Adams Bicknell 