Celebrate Every Day

Welcome to March 27th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate a regular Joe and a spicy history. Ordinary Joe, Joe Sixpack, Joe Blow, Joe Schmoe, Average Joe...did you ever wonder if other cultures have their own "Joes"? These Joe terms are used primarily in North America to refer to a completely average person but there are parallel terms in other languages such as Old Mate in Aust...

Welcome to March 26th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate knowing who your friends are and a veggie that gives us super strength. If you’re celebrating today’s national day, you’re going to need a friend along, if you for no other reason than to check your teeth. For one thing nougat seems designed to get stuck to your smile. The white kind is made by whipping...

Welcome to March 25th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate strange new worlds and acts of bravery. To say that JRR Tolkien had an impact on popular culture is an understatement. Without The Lord of the Rings, we might never have experienced Harry Potter or played Dungeons & Dragons. Before he wrote anything about a Hobbit, Tolkien was a professor of Old English literature and...

Welcome to March 24th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate saucy tails and movie sidekicks. Considering how long alcohol has been part of human culture, it’s surprising that the first cocktail wasn’t invented until the 1800s. Antoine Peychaud created the Sazerac in New Orleans using cognac, sugar, absinthe, and a dash of bitters. The name Sazerac comes from the brand...

Welcome to March 23rd, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate dynamic duos and useful pups. If you enjoy chips and dip, you can thank a tea company for the idea. In the years following World War II, the American suburbs grew rapidly, as did the demand for food and recipes for entertaining. Lipton, the British company known for its tea, marketed its onion soup mix as a way to make di...

Welcome to March 22nd, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate the 35th state and dessert for breakfast. West Virginia; the last of the states to be created from one of the original thirteen colonies, formed by staunch Union supporters when Virginia voted to secede from the Union at the beginning of the Civil War. West Virginia is also called The Mountain State with the Allegheny, Ap...

Welcome to March 21st, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate colorful history and the voice that launched our greatest missions. It's likely that somewhere along the way you've noticed two spellings for the word "color", one ending in "or" (the American version) and one ending in "our" (the UK version). Both are correct so why are there two ways to spell "color"? In the early 1800'...

Welcome to March 19th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate folks who walk the walk and having the last laugh. Nurses are a very dedicated type of person. If you think you would like to walk a mile in their shoes, consider this. In a twelve hour shift they walk just over 3 miles as they dart in between their patients. Multi tasking is part of the job and can be traced all the way...

Welcome to March 18th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate awkward slips and sloppy sandwiches. In 2011, Real Madrid won the Copa del Rey, Spain’s national pro soccer competition. For Spanish teams, this is on par with the Big Game or World Series. So of course fans in Madrid came out in massive numbers to celebrate. As the victory parade rolled through the city, players wa...

Welcome to March 17th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate spoiling St Patrick’s Day for all of us. Ah, St. Patrick’s Day, parades, the wearing of the green and Erin go bragh! Except…Saint Patrick wasn’t Irish and he wore blue. It’s true! Historian’s are in agreement that Saint Patrick was born in Roman England and they think he was likely brought to Ireland by slavers when he wa...

Welcome to March 16th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate cool kids and criminal hearts. Today we recognize the incredible kids in your life. Take a moment to write down all the things about your kid that amaze you, tell them how much you appreciate them and encourage them to change the world. What is most amazing about your kid, are they inspiring, spectacular, creative? All of...

Welcome to March 15th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate the Sunflower State and being wrong. It’s National Kansas Day today and we’re celebrating with fun facts about the 34th state. Kansas was admitted to the union in 1861 but the region became part of the US in 1803 with the finalizing of the Louisiana Purchase. Kansas is the home of White Castle, its state bug i...

Welcome to March 14th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate beautiful butterflies and being in the chips. Today we’re talking Rhopalocera or butterfly as we regular folk know it. While butterflies are beautiful to look at, you may not know that they have a long and interesting connection to our art, culture, mythology and folklore. They appear in art from ancient Egypt and M...

Welcome to March 13th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate a gem with a curse and a kid with big ears and big dreams. The one-of-a-kind blue gem known as the Hope Diamond was discovered by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in the 1600s. Well, not so much “discovered” as “stolen from a Hindu temple.” And the price of this theft was a curse. Tavernier sold the stone t...

Welcome to March 12th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate sunshine protection and Girl Scouts with gumption. Daylight Saving Time. Changing our clocks, losing sleep…ugh. But actually, Daylight Saving Time is a good thing. Hold on a minute… Daylight Saving Time is making our lives better. We spend more time awake in the evening than morning, this gives us the sunshi...

Welcome to March 11th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate heroes under the sink and in the orchards. Anna: Marlo…what’s going on? Marlo: Well, I had a drippy faucet so I thought I’d fix it. Anna: Um…fix it? Marlo: Yeah. That didn’t work out so well so…I called a plumber. Anna: I see that. Marlo: Yeah, sometimes you really need a professional and… Anna: This is one of those times...

Welcome to March 10th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate Scottish pipes and a brave little plumber. Anna: Hey Marlo, word association…I say bagpipes, you say? Marlo: Scotland Anna: Yup, bagpipes are considered to be from Scotland but the origins may go as far back as the Hittites in 1000 BCE! Bagpipes appeared in Europe in the early 1000’s and are explicitly mentioned in The Ca...

Welcome to March 9th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate a meatball by any other name and a doll who’s done it all. Kofta. Albondigas. Polpette. Lion’s Head. Bakso, it’s a meatball world and we’re just living in it. Across the world, meatballs exist in some form in almost every culture. Beef, pork, fish, lamb; baked, fried, grilled, stewed, braised or sim...

Welcome to March 8th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate our 33rd State and great women in history. Today is National Oregon Day, so let’s celebrate the 33rd state by sharing fun facts about this beautiful place. Marlo, did you know that Oregon residents own one quarter of the entire country’s Llama population? Or how about this? Springfield, Oregon is the real life...

Welcome to March 7th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate breakfast food for the kid in all of us. Marlo: Hey Anna, whatcha cooking? Anna: Flapjacks Marlo; it’s National Flapjack Day and I thought it would be fun to try out some recipes and toppings I found on the internet! Marlo: Okaaaaay, what’s with this green one?? Anna: Ooo, that’s an avocado and kale flapj...

Welcome to March 6th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate teeth specialists and a cookie imposter. There was a time that if you needed a haircut and had a toothache, you would go to the same place. A barbershop. Barbers weren’t proper dentists—they didn’t provide any preventive services or teeth cleaning. But they did perform tooth extractions if someone was in...

Welcome to March 5th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate tipsy medicine and playing with our food. Absinthe is one of the strongest liqueurs you can buy, sometimes going as high as 160 proof. Over the years it has gained a bad reputation because of one of its ingredients: wormwood. This herb with the gross sounding name supposedly causes hallucinations or madness, but wormwood i...

Welcome to March 4th, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate playing outside and a chip off the old block. Marlo: Hey Anna, it’s National Play Outside Day, let’s get out of here, what do you want to do today? Anna: Oh! I’d like to go for a hike, let’s go! Marlo: This is great! Fresh air, sunshine, not a care in the world! Anna: Yup, taking the show on the roa...

Welcome to March 3rd, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate protecting our ears and a better bologna. Marlo: Anna, what’s going on? Anna: What? Marlo: What’s going on? Anna: It’s World Hearing Day, we’re bringing attention to hearing loss. Marlo: Wanna dance? Anna: What? Marlo: Wanna…dance? Anna: The World Health Organization states that 5% of the wor...

Welcome to March 2, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate golden oldies and loveable authors. Anna: Hey Marlo did you ever watch the game show $100K Pyramid? Marlo: Hosted by Dick Clark? Of Course I did! Anna: You wanna play? Marlo: Sure! Anna: All the clues will be things that are old. Ready? These items come in 33s, 45s, 78s and are played on a turntable. Marlo: Vinyl Records. An...