Real Talk With Felicia

Happy Armed Forces Day

felicia — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:00:07 +0000

President Harry S. Truman led the effort to establish a single holiday for citizens to come together and thank our military members for their patriotic service in support of our country. On August 31, 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the creation of an Armed Forces Day to replace separate Army, Navy, …

National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day!

felicia — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:32:22 +0000

Oh yeah it’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! So make sure you celebrate accordingly!! Did you know? Half of all cookies sold today in the U.S. are chocolate chip, but the popular cookies were actually invented by accident. The story goes that in 1930, Ruth Graves Wakefield mixed semi-sweet chocolate chunks into a batch …

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!

felicia — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:31:00 +0000

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO ALL THE MOTHER’S! CELEBRATE LIFE AND ENJOY YOUR DAY!!

National Nurses Week

felicia — Tue, 07 May 2013 00:36:52 +0000

National Nurses Week is celebrated annually from May 6, also known as National Nurses Day, through May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.

MAY is MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH

felicia — Mon, 06 May 2013 01:35:26 +0000

Presidential Proclamation — National Mental Health Awareness Month, 2013 NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH, 2013 - – - – - – - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Today, tens of millions of Americans are living with the burden of a mental health problem. They shoulder conditions like depression …

HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO

felicia — Sun, 05 May 2013 16:21:18 +0000

Today people everywhere are celebrating CINCO DE MAYO! Enjoy your day responsibly!

Today is Earth Day

felicia — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:00:34 +0000

Earth Day — April 22 — marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Earth Day is held annually, a day on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. What can you do? Why not make every day Earth Day and …

Jackie Robinson

felicia — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:00:29 +0000

Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson was an American baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Born: January 31, 1919, Cairo Died: October 24, 1972, Stamford Education: Pasadena City College (1937 – 1939), John Muir High School, University of California, Los Angeles Awards: Presidential Medal …

That moment in history on April 4, 1968

felicia — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:00:37 +0000

< excerpt below taken from history.com> Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike and was on his …

April Observances

felicia — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:41:21 +0000

April Observances <from Wikipedia> by Presidential Proclamation 2nd Thursday in April: National D.A.R.E. Day April 9: National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day April 14: Pan American Day and week Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE), stylized as D.A.R.E., is an international education program founded by Daryl F. Gates that seeks to prevent use of controlled drugs, …