Happy November! It’s one of the two best months of the year (at least in the USA), as you have fall weather, Thanksgiving, football and hockey season going strong, as well as summer and baseball mercifully ending. Of course, November isn’t perfect, as Black Friday is a thing. But hey, even a perfectly snowy day …
This is Halloween. Or so the song goes. I don’t know, I didn’t write it. That said, we have entered my favorite part of the year — fall/autumn — and all the holidays that come along with it. While I have a personal fondness for Thanksgiving, I do enjoy Halloween. It’s the one secular holiday …
Welcome to September. It’s the perfect time to start kicking back with a cup of hot cocoa and watch as the leaves begin to turn. Or that’s what books want us to think. In reality, it’s the time of year — at least in Ohio — filled with absurdly hot weekdays followed by rainy, muggy …
Welcome to August — objectively the worst month of the year for anyone who likes holidays, cold weather, or nighttime. August is always the month of the year that I like the least and that feels (to me) like the hardest to get through. I don’t like to do much of anything in August, not …
It’s the middle of summer if you’re in the northern hemisphere. If you’re like me, that means you’re struggling through the worst part of the year, begging and pleading that fall and winter will come sooner rather than later. Since there wasn’t much of a spring time in the Midwestern USA this year, it’s doubly …
