World Chocolate Day lands on July 7, which feels less like a holiday and more like a personal value system finally getting recognized by the calendar.

I am a firm believer that food belongs in romance. Not as a backdrop. As a love language. Some of the best flirting happens over a shared dessert, because nobody is brave enough to say what they mean, so they say it with a spoon instead. (If a man offers me the last bite of anything, I assume we are engaged.)

This is the whole reason my Recipes...

Here is my hot take for the week: a small-town Fourth of July is the most romantic holiday on the calendar, and nobody talks about it enough. (Everyone is too busy fighting over who brings the potato salad.)

Think about it. The whole town shows up to one field. There is a parade that takes nine minutes because the route is two streets long. Somebody's grandpa is driving a tractor with crepe paper woven through the wheels. The high school band plays slightly off-key and everyone claps anyway....

National Typewriter Day is June 23, and yes, that’s a real holiday. (There is a National Typewriter Day. There is a National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day. There is something for everyone in this calendar system, which is either a sign of abundance or chaos, and I’ve decided not to investigate further.)

The typewriter arrived in 1873 and, for about a century, it was the fastest a story had ever been told. The sound of the keys, that specific unapologetic clatter, meant someone was making...