Author Archives: Jimmy

A couple of days ago, we talked about Distaff Day — the day when women went back to work after the 12-day Christmas celebration. Well, men have their own way of celebrating the occasion of returning to work — called … Continue reading →

Monday night the College Football Playoff (CFP) game will be held at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. It’s considered a bowl game to determine the national champion of college teams in NCAA Division I. The game will feature the Number … Continue reading →

Even though I guess a lot of people don’t celebrate it, today is Distaff Day.  A distaff is a wooden rod (staff) that holds flax or wool on a spinning wheel. The term distaff came to refer to both women’s … Continue reading →

Two years ago today a crowd on the National Mall violently breached the U.S. Capitol with the intent of disrupting the formal ratification of the 2020 presidential election. January 6, 2021 marked a grave crisis in American government, when a … Continue reading →

Today is Epiphany, or the Feast of the Epiphany, or Theophany, or Three Kings’ Day. Epiphany is one of the three principle and oldest festival days of the Christian church — the other two being Easter and Christmas. In Rome, … Continue reading →

In recent years, I’ve heard more about Twelfth Night celebrations. Growing up in Oklahoma, I never remember hearing the term and I honestly don’t remember much about the “Twelve Days of Christmas,” other than the song and I never understood … Continue reading →

There is a famous Chinese poem that contains the line, “he who has never been to the Great Wall is not a true man.” Well, I guess that puts me in the category of a “true man.” I was fortunate … Continue reading →

Well here we are kicking off a new year with another new January. This month was named after the Roman god Janus, who, fittingly, represented new beginnings. Janus was known as the protector of gates and doorways and who symbolizes … Continue reading →

Well, here we are in 2023 — hope it will be a great year for all of us. Today is the start of 2023, a common year that will be the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno … Continue reading →

Well, it’s almost 2023 — even though the big countdown to the new year happens just before midnight everywhere in the world, the time zone where you live determines who gets to celebrate first (and last.) So who gets to … Continue reading →