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Christmas in July is July 25, and I refuse to be embarrassed about how much I love it. (My family knows that if they hear sleigh bells coming from my office in the middle of summer, it is just a Tuesday.) Here is my…
Read MoreNational Ice Cream Day is July 19, and I have been thinking about the deep, scientific connection between ice cream and reading. (My research method was eating ice cream while reading. Very rigorous.) Hear me out. A…
Read MoreKelly Collins celebrates World Chocolate Day by exploring food as a romantic element. She describes her philosophy: "food belongs in romance. Not as a backdrop. As a love language." Collins explains that her *Recipes…
Read MoreHere 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…
Read MoreNational 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…
Read MoreBefore anything else: June 19 is Juneteenth, a federal holiday and a moment of American history worth pausing for. Take a moment. It matters. Now. Father's Day is Sunday, June 21, and I want to talk about the single…
Read MoreNational Best Friends Day is June 8, and I want to be honest with you: the best friend in a romance novel has one of the hardest jobs in fiction. She has to be funny enough to steal every scene she's in without…
Read MoreNational Donut Day is June 5, and I want to tell you about the most important hole in the history of pastry. In 1847, a sixteen-year-old sailor named Hanson Gregory got frustrated that the center of his fried dough…
Read MoreMemorial Day arrives on May 25, which is also, somehow, National Wine Day. The universe has gifted us a long weekend and a wine holiday in the same 72 hours. I consider this a personal message. (Who am I to argue with…
Read MoreMemorial Day weekend is almost here, which means summer reading season is officially about to kick off. (May is also Get Caught Reading Month, by the way, so consider yourselves warned. I'm watching you in public,…
Read MoreNational Chocolate Chip Day is May 15, which might be the most important holiday of the entire month, depending on your priorities. (Mine are: book, blanket, snack. Everything else is negotiable.) Here's something I…
Read MoreIt's Mother's Day week (Sunday, May 10), which means flowers, brunch reservations, and a guilt-induced rush on greeting cards. But here's a story I bet you didn't know. The woman who fought to make Mother's Day a…
Read MoreApril is almost over, but before we move into May, let's talk about something that happens on April 30 and matters far more than most people realize: National Honesty Day. And yes, there's a whole day dedicated to this.…
Read MoreThis week is a straight-up love letter to books and the places we find them. World Book Day lands on April 23, Earth Day reminds us to care for our world on April 22, and Independent Bookstore Day hits on April 25. So…
Read MoreTax Day is coming (April 15, in case you've been living under a rock), and I'm sure many of you are having the annual panic of gathering receipts and trying to remember which deductions are legal. But I've got a…
Read MoreApril 10 is National Siblings Day, and if you're anything like me, it's probably an excuse to send your brother a text that says "happy siblings day" and then not hear from him until Christmas. (The one I have is…
Read MoreIt's April, and that means April Fool's Day is right around the corner. Did you know that the origins of April Fool's Day are kind of chaotic? Some say it started in the 16th century when France switched from the Julian…
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