November already??

Well, I don’t know about you but wasn’t the 4th of July just a few days ago? What happend to Fall? School is in full swing and Christmas is tailgating my Halloween hayride! We can’t let November become a mere sigh between these two holidays, right? Of course not, my learned friends! November can hold its head high in pride because it is the month for National Inspirational Role Models, Family Stories, National American Indian Heritage, and National Scholarship! November has weeks set aside for communication and animal shelters and readers and kindness and storytelling. November has days for planning your epitaph, visiting the Chicken Lady (whoever she is…), common sense, tongue twisters, and homemade bread. Ahh…I feel better now. And you thought I was going to wax poetic about Thanksgiving, didn’t you?

November Flower:  Chrysanthemum                Birthstone:  Topaz
Full Moon:  November 13th                             New Moon:  November 27th

Monthly celebrations
Adoption Awareness Month go ahead and tell the kids they’re adopted…
American Diabetes Month
Aviation History Month
Celebrate Empty Nester Month adopt an empty-nester!
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
Epilepsy Awareness Month
Family Stories Month do they have to be true?
Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month
I Am So Thankful Month
International Drum (Percussion Month)
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
MADD’s Tie One On for Safety Holiday Campaign (11/16-12/31)
Military Family Appreciation Month especially at this time of year…
Movember (Australia – Mustache Month)
National Adoption Month
National AIDS Awareness Month
National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month don’t forget to honor this one!
National American Indian Heritage Month
National COPD Awareness Month
National Family Caregivers Month
National Georgia Pecan Month make a pie, y’all!
National Home Care & Hospice Month
National Hospice Month there’s a special place in heaven for hospice workers…
National Impotency Month
National Inspirational Role Models Month write them a letter of thanks!
National Lifewriting Month
National Marrow Awareness Month
National Novel Writing Month it was a dark and stormy night…
National Pet Cancer Awareness Month
National Pomegranate Month
National Scholarship Month
NoSHAVEmber (US – Beard Month)
Peanut Butter Lovers’ Month I LOVE peanut butter!
Prematurity Awareness Month
Vegan Month peanut butter is a great protein choice, vegans!

Weekly November Celebrations…
National Patient Accessibility Week (Nov. 1-7)
World Communication Week (Nov. 1-7) make an overseas phone call…
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week (Nov. 2-8)
National Long-term Care AWareness Week (Nov. 2-8)
Intimate Apparel Market Week (Nov. 3-7 – also observed in Feb., May, & Aug.)
Pursuit of Happiness Week (Nov. 8-14) I’m working on life and liberty right now…
National Rad Tech Week (Nov. 9-15)
Perioperative Nurses Week (Nov. 9-15)
Fraud Awareness Week (Nov. 9-16) you’re usually not aware until it’s too late…
National Young Reader’s Week (Nov. 10-14) read to a youngster!
World Kindness Week (Nov. 10-17) practice random acts!
Green Ribbon Awareness Week (Nov. 13-19)
American Education Week (Nov. 16-22)
National Geography Awareness Week (Nov. 16-22)
Tellabration! Storytelling for Grownups Week (Nov. 20-23)
National Farm-City Week (Nov. 20-27) bring on that turkey!
National Family Week (Nov. 23-29)
National Game & Puzzle Week (Nov. 23-29)
National Bible Week (Nov. 23-30)
Better Conversation Week (Nov. 24-30) talk about the Bible…
Travelers with Disabilities Week (Nov. 30-Dec. 6)

November days to celebrate…
11/1    All Saints’ Day
            National Authors’ Day thank an author! (see below for ideas…)
            Sadie Hawkins Day
            National Family Literacy Day
11/2    Cookie Monster Day bake a batch and eat them all yourself!
            Daylight Savings Time Ends
            Plan Your Epitaph Day there once was a library lady…
            Zero Tasking Day
11/3    National Traffic Directors Day
            Cliché Day it was a dark and stormy night…
            Digital Scrapbooking Day
            Fala Day la la la la la la la!
            Sandwich Day Earl or bread?
11/4    Election Day
            Mischief Night (England, Australia, New Zealand)
            National Chicken Lady Day vote for the Chicken Lady!
            Flag Day (Panama)
            Use Your Common Sense Day especially in the voting booth…
            Victory Day (Italy)
            Will Rogers Day now there was someone with some common sense!
11/5     Recreation Day (Australia)
             Guy Fawkes Day (England)
11/6     Guinness World Record Day
             National Men Make Dinner Day oh pullease! really?
             International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War &Armed Conflict
             Saxophone Day play the sax while your man makes dinner!
             Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden)
11/7     National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
             Arbor Day (Samoa)
11/8     Abet and Aid Punsters Day
             Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day no “pun” intended…
             International Tongue Twister Day she sells seashells by the seashore…
             National Parents as Teachers Day okay…this is an EVERY day thing…
11/9     National Child Safety Council
11/9-10  Kristallnacht
11/10    Area Code Day
              Gingerbread House Day isn’t this a little early?
              Marine Corps Birthday
              World Orphans Day
11/11    Death/Duty Day
              Veterans Day (Armistice Day, Victory Day, World War I Memorial Day)
              National Young Reader’s Day read, read, read!
11/12    Birth of Baha’U'Llah
              Postman’s Day (Mexico)
11/13    World Kindness Day help make the world a kinder place…
11/14    Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day
              Children’s Day (India)
              National American Teddy Bear Day taking one to work was so last month…
              United Nations World Diabetes Day
11/14-16 National Donor Sabbath Days
11/15    America Recycles Day
              I Love to Write Day well, you know that applies to me…
              National Bundt (Pan) Day watch My Big Fat Greek Wedding & the bundt pan scene!
11/16    International Day for Tolerance
             Transgender Day of Remembrance
             World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
11/17    Homemade Bread Day make mine the whole wheat version from Laurel’s Kitchen…
11/18    Married to a Scorpio Support Day
              Mickey Mouse Day was Mickey a Scorpio?
              Push-Button Phone Day kids today don’t know there was ever anything else!
11/19    National Educational Support Professionals Day
              Have a Bad Day Day not a great phrase for customer service professionals…
              National Holiday (Monaco)
11/20    African Industrialization Day
              Great American Smokeout c’mon! you can do it!
              Name Your PC Day
              United Nations: Universal Children’s Day
11/21    World Hello Day wave to a stranger
              World Television Day
11/22    Alascattalo Day (About Alaska & Humor)
              Humane Society Anniversary Day formed before child protection services, you know…
              International Aura Awareness Day
              National Adoption Day
              National Family Volunteer Day I’d like to volunteer my family!
              National Survivors of Suicide Day
11/23    You’re Welcomegiving Day
11/24    Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day
              D.B. Cooper Day unique talent for disappearing…
11/25    International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women Day
              Shopping Reminder Day we need a reminder??
11/26    Tie One On Day
11/27    Thanksgiving Day
11/28    Black Friday
              Buy Nothing Day what would the DOW do if everyone celebrated this one?
              Flossing Day
              Maize Day
              National Salesperson’s Day
              Sinkie Day as in eat that cold turkey over the sink…
11/29    Electronic Greetings Day could we do Xmas cards via email?
              International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
11/30    Computer Security Day
              National Meth Awareness Day
              Stay Home Because You’re Well Day and stay away from the meth…

Selected Author birthdays in November…
11/1 Stephen Crane (1871), Brian Heinz (1946)
11/2 Mildred Ames (1919), Alyssa Satin Capucilli (1957)
11/3 Betty Bao Lord (1938), Janell Cannon (1957)
11/4 Sterling North (1906)
11/5 Thomas Aylesworth (1927), Raymond Bial (1948)
11/6 Roger Carr (1937), Michelle Magorian (1947)
11/7 Armstrong Sperry (1897), Sneed B. Collard, III (1959)
11/8 Bram Stoker (1847), Margaret Mitchell (1900), Marianna Mayer (1945)
11/9 Lois Ehlert (1934), Pat Cummings (1950)
11/10 Kate Seredy (1899), W. E. Butterworth (1929)
11/11 Peg Kehret (1936), Diane Wolkstein (1942)
11/12 Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (1928), Neal Shusterman (1962)
11/13 Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Nathaniel Benchley (1915)
11/14 Miska Miles (1899), William Steig (1907), Nancy Tafuri (1946)
11/15 Marianne Moore (1887), Daniel Pinkwater (1941)
11/16 Jean Fritz (1915), Carolyn Reeder (1937), Robin McKinley (1952)
11/17 Marilyn Sadler (1950), Alison Lester (1952)
11/18 Margaret Atwood (1939), Nancy Van Laan (1939)
11/19 Ann Herbert Scott (1926), Elizabeth Cleaver (1939)
11/20 William Cole (1919), Marion Dane Bauer (1938)
11/21 Elizabeth George Speare (1908), Leo Politi (1908), Megan Whalen Turner (1965)
11/22 George Eliot (1819), Samuel Epstein (1909), Jamie Lee Curtis (1958)
11/23 Marc Simont (1915), Lois Johnson (1936)
11/24 Carlo Collodi (1826), Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), Yoshiko Uchida (1921)
11/25 P.D. Eastman (1909), Marc Brown (1946), Crescent Dragonwagon (1952)
11/26 Charles Schultz (1922)
11/27 James Agee (1909), Kevin Henkes (1960)
11/28 William Blake (1757), Ed Young (1931), Mary E. Lyons (1947)
11/29 Louisa May Alcott (1832), C.S. Lewis (1898), Madeleine L’Engle (1918)
11/30 Jonathan Swift (1667), Mark Twain (1835), Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874)