The merry, merry month of May
The grass is greening, the dogwoods are blooming, the pollen dust has covered everything in a smooth, yellow glow. Yes, it’s May. The time of planting gardens and pulling out the flip-flops. The time of sunshine and cool breezes. The time in between tulips and day lillies. Well, my learned friends, as you know there is SO much more to the month with the short name! So sharpen your hearing, clean up your speech, get caught reading while improving your business image and practicing motorcycle safety on the way to a barbecue for foster children at which you eat an egg and make a hamburger with salsa, vidalia onions, and salad for an older American who will share their personal history while smiling for a photo during a tennis match for young achievers. Enjoy….
Remember, folks, the comments in italics are mine and mine alone and do not reflect the opinions, ideas, or musings of any other person, group or entity. The comments simply reflect the twisted path upon which my mind travels and there is no intention of harm, ridicule, or disparagement…
May Flower: Lily-of-the-Valley Birthstone: Emerald
New Moon: May 5th at 8:18am
Full Moon: May 19 at 10:11pm
Monthly observances in the month of May
ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) Awareness Month
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Awareness of Medical Orphans Month
Better Hearing & Speech Month take a diction class!
Brain Tumor Awareness Month
Creative Beginnings Month
Family Wellness Month
Fibromyalgia Education and Awaress Month
Freedom Shrine Month
Get Caught Reading Month by whom?
Gifts from the Garden Month isn’t this a little early?
Go Fetch! Food Drive for Homeless Animals Month they have to fetch it?
Haitian Heritage Month
Heal the Children Month love and vegetables!
Healthy Vision Month
Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month
International Audit Month can we make the auditors go fetch instead of the animals?
International Business Image Improvement Month
International Victorious Woman Month sing the theme from Wonder Woman!
Jewish-American Heritage Month
Latino Books Month Lee un libro!
Motorcycle Safety Month wear your helmets!
National Allergy/Asthma Awareness Month
National Arthritis Month
National Barbecue Month
National Bike Month ride one to a barbecue!
National Correct Posture Month
National Egg Month sit up straight while you eat that egg salad!
National Foster Care Month (link)
National Good Car Keeping Month
National Hamburger Month don’t eat one in your car…
National Hepatitis Awareness Month
(World) Lyme Disease Awareness Month (link)
National Meditation Month ohm…
National Mental Health Month just keep meditating…
National Military Appreciation Month
National Moving Month our bodies or our residences?
National Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month
National Older Americans Month 65 is the new 40!
National Osteoporosis Prevention Month
National Photo Month
National Physical Fitness & Sports Month
National Preservation Month what are we preserving?
National Salad Month
National Salsa Month mix some salsa into your salad dressing! yum!
National Smile Month
National Stroke Awareness Month
National Revise Your Work Schedule Month how appropriate for us educators!!
National Vinegar Month
Navajo Code Talkers Month
Personal History Month start keeping a journal…you’ll be surprised at what you learn!
Prepare to Buy A Home Month good luck with that…
React Month
Strike Out Strokes Month
Sweet Vidalia Onions Month eat ‘em like apples!
Teen Self-Esteem Month
Tennis Month play tennis with a teen!
Tay-Sachs and Canavan Diseases Month (link)
Ultra-violet Awareness Month don’t forget the sunscreen!
Women’s Health Care Month
Young Achiever’s Month
National Family Month 5/11-6/18
Weekly May Celebrations
May 1-7
National Fairy Godmother Week (link) I need one of those!
Pen Friends International Week
May 1-8
Tim & Tom Gullikson Week who?
May 4-10
Be Kind to Animals Week ALWAYS be kind to animals, people…
Flexible Work Arrangement Week how about I stay home for this one?
Goodwill Industries Week
National Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week
National Family Week hopefully your family doesn’t cause anxiety & depression
National Hug Holiday Week FROM hugs or MORE hugs?
National Pet Week
National Post Card Week send your pet a postcard!
Reading is Fun Week reading is fun ALL the time!
May 5-9
Intimate Apparel Market Week
Update Your References Week don’t burn bridges…
May 5-10
Astronomy Week Look! Up in the sky!
North American Occupational Safety & Health Week (link)
May 5-11
Life Coach Recognition Week
National Wildflower Week pick some for your Life Coach!
May 6-12
National Nurses Day and Week
Teacher Appreciation Week you can’t appreciate them enough…
May 9-15
Salute to 35+ Moms Week go, Moms!
May 10-18
National Tourism Week strap on a camera, some black socks, and go somewhere!
May 11-17
National Nursing Home Week
National Police Week
Kiwanis Prayer Week pray for our police officers
Salvation Army Week
National Transportation Week not sure I can afford this one anymore…
Universal Family Week
May 11-18
National Women’s Health Week (link)
May 12-18
Children’s Book Week read a book to a child!
National Stuttering Awareness Week
May 17-23
National Safe Boating Week don’t forget the life vests!
May 18-24
Bread Week
National Dog Bite Prevention Week wouldn’t be necessary if we were all kind to animals…
National Effectiveness Week
National New Friends, Old Friends Week make new friends but keep the old…(sing along!)
World Trade Week
May 18-25
National Medical Transcription Week
May 19-26
Work at Home Moms Week ALL moms work at home!
National Backyard Games Week
May 23-26
Old Time Piano Playing Week
May 24-31
Cover the Uninsured Week especially the kids
May 25-31
Week of Solidarity with People of Non-Self-Governing Territories
Merry May Days!
May 1
(World) Asthma Day
Beltaine (link)
Executive Coaching Day
Frequent Flyer Day in coach with an executive…
Law Day
Lei Day give a lawyer a lei!
Library Legislative Day advocate!!!
Loyalty Day
Martin Z. Mollusk Day who is Martin Z. Mollusk???
May Day
Mother Goose Day
National Day of Prayer
National Day of Reason let’s pray for more reason!
New Homeowner’s Day
School Principals’ Day they deserve more than one day…
Stepmother’s Day
May 2
No Pants Day whew! this falls on Saturday!
Roberts Rule of Order Day
May 3
Cartoonists Day
Free Comic Book Day (link)
Garden Meditation Day read a free comic book in your garden!
Kentucky Derby …wearing a really outrageous hat!
International Pilates Day
Join Hands Day (and May 4th)
Lumpy Rug Day don’t do Pilates on a lumpy rug…
National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day
National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (link)
National Homebrew Day please don’t share it with the teens…
National Public Radio Day
National Scrapbooking Day
World Press Freedom Day
Dandelion Day (and May 4th)
May 4
Motorcycle Mass & Blessing of the Bikes Day this I’d like to see!
National Infertility Survival Day
Respect for Chickens Day hmmm…
May 5
Childhood Stroke Awareness Day
Cinco de Mayo arriba!
Melanoma Monday
Totally Chipotle Day
May 6
Childhood Depression Awareness Day
Joseph Brackett Day
National Teacher Day hug a teacher! (but make sure you know the one you’re hugging…)
No Diet Day hooray!
No Homework Day hooray again!
Nurses Day
May 7
Great American Grump Out no grumps!
National School Nurse Day
May 8
Cranmere Day
No Socks Day shouldn’t this go along with No Pants Day?
Time of Remembrance & Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During the Second World War (and May 9th)
VE Day
World Red Cross Day
May 9
Child Care Provider Day
May 10
Astronomy Day
Birthmother’s Day (Saturday before Mother’s Day)
International Migratory Bird Day
Letter Carrier’s Food Drive Day put a can in your mailbox!
Lupus Day
Mother Ocean Day
National Babysitter’s Day
National Train Day take a train trip with your babysitter!
Windmill Day go see The Man of La Mancha!
World Fair Trade Day
May 11
Eat What You Want Day hooray! day 2!
Mother’s Day
Pentecost or WhitSunday
May 12
Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
Limerick Day there once was a man from Nantucket…
Native American Rights Day
National Nutty Fudge Day
Stamp Out Hunger - NALC Food Drive they need more than nutty fudge…
Library Legislative Days (and May 14)
May 14
National Night or Third Shift Workers Day I’d like to sleep on this…
Donate A Day’s Wages to Charity Day
Receptionists’ Day
Root Canal Appreciation Day oh, no no no…
Underground American Day
May 15
International Day of Families
National Chocolate Chip Day make cookies with your family!
National Safety Dose Day
Nylon Stockings Day do they still make nylon stockings?
Peace Officer Memorial Day
May 16
Biographer’s Day
International Virtual Assistants Day how do you get a virtual assistant?
National Bike to Work Day just don’t hold up traffic, pal!
National Defense Transportation Day
National Pizza Party Day don’t forget to tip the delivery person!
National Sea Monkey Day who DIDN’T have these growing up?
Dulcimer Days (through May 18th)
May 17
Armed Forces Day
Baby Sitter Safety Day keep the rubber arrows under lock and key…
Preakness Stakes
World Telecommunications Day
World Information Society Day
Fishing Has No Boundaries Day (and May 18th) except for the shoreline, I suppose…
May 18
Celebrate Your Elected Officials Day um…
International Museum Day
NASCAR Day
Send an Electronic Greeting Card Day send one to your elected officials!
Visit Your Relatives Day
Whistler’s Mother Day
May 20
Eliza Doolittle Day the rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain…
Weights & Measures Day rats! this should be BEFORE no diet day!
May 21
American Red Cross Founder’s Day
National Employee Health & Fitness Day
Turn Beauty Inside Out Day
I Need a Patch for That Day for what?
National Wait Staff Day tip well, be kind, & remember what a tough job it is…
World Day for Culteral Diversity for Dialogue & Development
May 22
International Day for Biological Diversity
National Maritime Day sail to the Galapagos!
May 23
Declaration of the Bab Day what is the Bab and why are we declaring it?
National Taffy Day
May 24
Brother’s Day what if you only have sisters?
International Jazz Day play some jazz for your brothers!
Julia Pierpont Day
Plant a Letterbox Day
Tiara Day ooh! an excuse to wear mine!
Victoria Day
May 25
National Missing Children’s Day may they all find their way home…
National Tap Dance Day
Neighbor Day go on over and say hello!
Indianapolis 500
Nerd or Geek Pride Day did Bill Gates have something to do with this?
Towel Day
May 26
Memorial Day (Observed)
Prayer for Peace Memorial Day
May 28
National Senior Health & Fitness Day
Slugs Return from Capistrano Day why were the slugs in Capistrano?
May 29
International Day of U.N. Peacekeepers
May 30
Hug Your Cat Day if you can catch her…
Loomis Day
Memorial Day (Actual)
May 31
World No-Tobacco Day QUIT!
Selected Author Birthdays
May 1: Elizabeth Marie Pope, 1917; Joan Bowden, 1925
May 2: Susan Shreve, 1939; Mary Quattlebaum, 1958
May 3: Karen Heywood, 1946; Mavis Jukes, 1947
May 4: Don Wood, 1945; Doug Cushman, 1953
May 5: Leo Lionni, 1910; J. Patrick Lewis, 1942; Todd Strasser, 1950
May 6: Judy Delton, 1931; Ted Lewin, 1935; Barbara McClintock, 1955
May 7: Nonny Hogrogrian, 1932; Angela Carter, 1940; Peter Carey, 1943
May 8: Milton Meltzer, 1915; Ellen Howard, 1945
May 9: Sir James M. Barrie, 1860; Eleanor Estes, 1906; William Pene DuBois, 1916; Richard Adams, 1920
May 10: Bruce McMillan, 1947; Caroline B. Cooney, 1947; Christopher Paul Curtis, 1954
May 11: Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 1927; Peter Sis, 1949
May 12: Edward Lear, 1812; Betsy Lewin, 1937
May 13: Norma Klein, 1938; Jennifer Bryant, 1960
May 14: George Selden Thompson, 1929
May 15: L. Frank Baum, 1856; Norma Fox Mazer, 1931; Paul Zindel, 1936
May 16: Margret Rey, 1906; Bruce Coville, 1950
May 17: Eloise Greenfield, 1929; Gary Paulsen, 1939
May 18: Irene Hunt, 1907; Lillian Hoban, 1925; Diane Duane, 1952; Debra Dadey, 1959
May 19: Tom Feelings, 1933; Arthur Dorros, 1950
May 20: Don Lawson, 1917; Carol Carrick, 1935; Mary Pope Osborne, 1949
May 21: Virginia Haviland, 1911; Beverly Naidoo, 1943
May 22: Arnold Lobel, 1933
May 23: Scott O’Dell, 1898; Margaret Wise Brown, 1910; Susan Cooper, 1935
May 24: Mary Stolz, 1920; Candace Fleming, 1962
May 25: Betty Levine, 1933; Joyce Carol Thomas, 1938
May 26: Ann McGovern, 1931; Sheila Greenwald, 1934
May 27: M.E. Kerr, 1927
May 28: Ian Fleming, 1909; Debby Atwell, 1953
May 29: Eleanor Coerr, 1922; Willo Davis Roberts, 1928; Andrew Clements, 1949
May 30: Cornelia Otis Skinner, 1901
May 31: Elizabeth Coatsworth, 1893; Harry Mazer, 1925; Will Hillenbrand, 1960
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