Memorial Day
Remembering and honoring our nation’s heroes today on this Memorial Day and beyond.
May 2022
World Turtle Day®!
Happy World Turtle Day®! It’s time to shellebrate (as Dean might say)! 😉 American Tortoise Rescue, a nonprofit organization, created this day over 20 years ago to help people celebrate and protect turtles and tortoises and their disappearing habitats around the world. For more than 100 million years sea turtles have covered vast distances across …
Crater Lake National Park
Happy 120th anniversary to Crater Lake National Park located in Oregon! About 7,700 years ago, Mount Mazama erupted creating the deepest lake in the United States and the 9th deepest in the world. With a depth of 1,943 feet, Crater Lake is the one of the most beautiful lakes you will ever see. The water’s …
Summer Reading Challenge
To help keep your kids reading this summer, I created a fun summer reading challenge. One of the main characters in Turtle Tube: An Erutuf National Park Novel, Dean, loves to read. He needs help to read more books this summer! Click here for the challenge. Complete the list, e-mail me, and you will receive …
Peter Pan Day
“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan Happy Peter Pan Day or really, J.M. Barrie’s birthday! J. M. Barrie authored “Peter Pan” as a play first in 1904 and then as a novel in 1911. Cheers to this Scottish author and playwright for creating such a memorable …
Kanga
“A Kanga is generally regarded as one of the fiercer animals. I am not frightened of fierce animals in the ordinary way, but it is well known that, if one of the fiercer animals is deprived of its young, it becomes as fierce as two of the fiercer animals.” ~ A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh The …
Star Wars Day
“Jedi do not fight for peace. That’s only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because justice is the fundamental bedrock of civilization: an unjust civilization is built upon sand. It does not long survive a storm.” ~Mace Windu, …