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July 2022 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of July for writers and readers

  • July 1 – Canada Day / International Joke Day
  • July 2 – I Forgot Day / World UFO Day
  • July 3 – Compliment Your Mirror Day / Disobedience Day
  • July 4 – Independence Day (U.S.) / National Country Music Day
  • July 5 – National Apple Turnover Day / National Bikini Day / National Workaholics Day
  • July 6 – International Kissing Day / National Fried Chicken Day
  • July 7 – Chocolate Day / Global Forgiveness Day
  • July 8 – National Blueberry Day / National Motorcycle Day (2nd Friday in July)
  • July 9 – National Sugar Cookie Day
  • July 10 – Teddy Bear Picnic Day
  • July 11 – Cheer Up the Lonely Day / National Blueberry Muffin Day / World Population Day
  • July 12 – Pecan Pie Day / National Different Colored Eyes Day
  • July 13 – Barbershop Music Appreciation Day / National French Fry Day
  • July 13 – Embrace Your Geekness Day
  • July 14 – Bastille Day / National Macaroni and Cheese Day / National Nude Day / Shark Awareness Day
  • July 15 – Be a Dork Day / Cow Appreciation Day / National Give Something Away Day
  • July 17 – National Ice Cream Day
  • July 20 – Moon Day
  • July 21 – National Be Somebody Day
  • July 22 – Hammock Day
  • July 23 – National Day of the Cowboy / Vanilla Ice Cream Day
  • July 24 – Amelia Earhart Day / Cousins Day / National Tequila Day / Parents’ Day
  • July 26 – All or Nothing Day
  • July 27 – Walk on Stilts Day
  • July 29 – International Tiger Day
  • July 30 – International Day of Friendship
  • July 31 – Mutt’s Day / National Avocado Day

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Photo of the Week – June 25, 2022

Whoever put up this sign on the front door of the Harry Reed Insurance Agency in Millinocket, Maine last Monday, June 20, either wasn’t happy about the new Juneteenth federal holiday or they didn’t care.  Regardless, the agency is now trying to backtrack after word of the sign hit the media and went viral.  To my non-American friends, fried chicken and collard greens are often stereotypically associated with African-Americans, so the verbiage on the sign boasts a racist bent.  And, as often happens when people don’t think before they speak, act or write, the Reed agency has lost its contracts with at least three major insurance conglomerates.  As the negative fallout grew, the associate who posted the sign has publicly apologized by declaring, in part: “I am so sorry for any pain I have caused and the negative attention it has brought to our beautiful community.”

Beautiful or not, I’d hate to see what they’d say if Hispanics get a national holiday!

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