Without a doubt January is a quirky month: January 2nd – National Buffet Day January 10th – Peculiar People Day January 13th – National Peach Melba Day January 20th – Penguin Awareness Day January 23 – National Rhubarb Pie Day January also features some oddly sexist (not that we’re complaining) and unexplained holidays: January 8th [...]

December 5th – anniversary of the end of Prohibition in the U.S. – go ahead – spike that eggnog! December 6th – Put on Your Own Shoes Day – interesting proximity to the holiday directly above… December 6th – Woolseymas (for all the James Joyce fans out there) December 14th – National Bouillabaisse Day – [...]

The month is pretty well dominated by Veterans’ Day and Thanksgiving, but if you’re in the mood for something less well known, these should get you started: November 2  – Look for circles day.  No evidence that it started with Sesame Street but I’m suspicious November 13 – Sadie Hawkins Day November 14 – National [...]

Stay in an ice hotel – understandably these are only available for reservations in winter. However the one in Sweden’s Lapland offers a 3-day ice-sculpting class during the summer. How could anyone not want to learn that? Lapland ice hotel Quebec ice hotel Do something for the next solar maximum in 2011/2012. The last one [...]

June 17 – Bunker Hill Day June 18 – International Panic Day June 19 – World Sauntering Day June 22 – National Chocolate Eclair Day June 30 – Meteor Watch day The whole month of June is National Accordion Awareness Month