Tied Up Today

National Color Day is celebrated on 22 October. It originated with a promotion by General Motors in 2009 to name the color of its newest ve...

Please look at wonderful colors and shapes on leaves today (or tomorrow), for Look at the Leaves Day. Ours are not exceptionally bright but...

 I'm wearing red-gold-green-and-brown to celebrate " Look At  the Leaves Day ." Our own trees are mostly green but there are a...

 My nephew Matt Lang asked me to wear this fall colors tie to honor his 29th birthday today! And in this time of falling temperatures I'...

On this date in 1967, Dr. Cicely Saunders founded the first modern hospice , St Christopher's, in London, England. This was the beginni...

Today is Mother-in-Law's Day! Wilma Wollenweber asked me to wear a tie with fall colors, so I chose this one!

Today is e Day! 2 and 7 are the first digits in the number e = 2.718281828459..., and so the seventh of February is particularly significa...

Today is my brother Richard Arthur Kleppinger's 69th birthday! At his request, I'm wearing the same tie as last year, when he wanted...

I asked my brother Dick what tie I should wear to commemorate his birthday (yesterday). He requested a tie suitable to mark the Day of Atone...

I'm wearing fall colors today, to honor the birthday of nephew Matt Lang! Our local trees have just begun showing some color, and leaves...

Various events for Sept. 10: In 1946, Mother Teresa of Calcutta received her vision for her life's mission of caring for the poor. 100 y...

Beth found an appropriate occasion to celebrate today, and chose the tie to go with it. Organic chemist (Sir) Robert Robinson was born on Se...

August 29 is always "More Herbs, Less Salt Day," so it is thyme for this sage to wear something oregano. Beth and I decided that t...

At today's annual Poetry Marathon at EKU, I am reading Walt Whitman's " To Think of Time ," which is a great meditation on...