December is THE season. It begins with World AIDS Awareness Day on the first and the second is National Pie Day. There is something to observe each day of the month.

December 4 is Wear Brown Shoes Day. December 7 is, of course, Pearl Harbor Day, but did you know it is also Letter Writing Day? Is that obsolete, or what.

The 8th is National Brownie Day. I don't know if that is a camera or a cookie, so I am going to photograph a plate of brownies with my Brownie Hawkeye on that day.

Ice Cream Day comes on the 13th, and Hanukkah begins on the 15th, which is also Bill of Rights day.

The 16th, 17th, and 18th are days to celebrate various sweet and sticky desserts which I am not allowed to mention by name.

I don't care to celebrate Humbug Day on the 21st. My reaction to that is, "Bah! Humbug!"

The 25th is National Pumpkin Pie Day, as well as that other holiday.

Kwanzaa begins on the 26th and the 27th is National Fruitcake day. All of the fruitcakes I know are pleased to have their own day.

I always think of December 30th as my mother's birthday. She would have celebrated her 100th this year. But more importantly, it is Bicarbonate of Soda Day, which quite naturally follows Pepper Pot Day on the 29th.

New Year's Eve, Make Up Your Mind Day, and Unlucky Day all fall on the 31st.

No, I absolutely did not make this up. These special days, and some I skipped, were all listed in a column by Nancy Duggin in The Daily News Journal*, the newspaper where I worked when I was in college.
Howard
*Murfreesboro, Tennessee