It’s both helium discovery day and bad poetry day, so of course I’ve written a poorly-done limerick on the discovery of helium:
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Book Lovers’ Day
It’s book lover’s day, and I’ll keep this simple: what’s a book you love?
For me, I love “the house with a clock in its walls” by John Bellairs. It was the first book that scared me but kept me reading. The movie adaptation isn’t bad, either
Takin it Slow on a Sunday Afternoon
The days grow longer and warmer but inside we’ve got the blackout shades drawn and the AC on so draw up a chair and I’ll pour us a refreshing beverage. Let’s chat about the week that was.
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Today is Memorial Day in the United States, and as is my custom I share a poem for that day. I last shared this poem in 2016; it’s time to do so again, I think.
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It’s World Dracula Day! First published on this date in 1897, Bram Stoker’s classic novel (and the seemingly countless adaptations it’s inspired) continues to fascinate and terrify those who choose to sink their teeth into this classic vampire tale. Do you have a favorite version?
Towel Day
Today on Towel Day let us remember the words of Douglas Adams: “If you want to survive out here, you’ve got to know where your towel is . . . A towel… is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have … any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.”
Running In My Head 