To my dad, who taught us to read without genres, cook without recipes, and love without limits.
Happy Father’s Day!
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Posts Tagged ‘holidays’
My Favorite Father
Posted in Holidays, Likes, tagged #365Ways, family, holidays, Thoughts on June 20, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Happy Juneteenth, America!
Posted in Holidays, tagged #365Ways, holidays, Juneteenth, Thoughts on June 19, 2021| Leave a Comment »
We’ve taken a lot of steps to be where we are now. The Emancipation Proclamation, issued in 1863 and announced, finally, on June 19, 1865 in Galveston, Texas, was a big one.
Is everything perfect? Of course not. But our path is clear and the goal is righteous. This is a good next step.
Happy Juneteenth, America!*
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to change the world.
— Harriet Tubman
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* Is this only a Black American thing? Nope, it’s a “let’s all celebrate a better world” thing:)
Happy Mothers
Posted in Holidays, Likes, tagged #365Ways, family, holidays, Mother's Day on May 9, 2021| Leave a Comment »
I am fortunate enough to have one, two, three mothers! To them, and to you, I send all my very best wishes.
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Dear Down Under…
Posted in Other, tagged Air New Zealand, Australia, cold, holidays, home, New Zealand, snow, travel, vacation, weather maps, winter on January 28, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Dear Air New Zealand and Australia.com,
Please stop showing me perky web ads with weather maps of your fair region. I know that it is summer there when it is winter here, but you don’t have to rub my face in it. I know that my −24C is your +24C, but thinking about it makes me want to cry. I also know how lovely it is Down Under, how full of stunning vistas and sumptuous wines and delectable foodstuffs, and sigh as I peer over the wind-swept mounds of snow outside my window.
So please, please, Air New Zealand and Australia.com, stop rubbing it in. Have pity on a poor Northern Hemisphere-ite, and let me freeze in peace.
Yours in winter,
J.R. Johnson
