On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed H.R.3706 - A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to make the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., a legal public holiday. The act declared the third Monday of January a federal holiday to be celebrated in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday was January 15. It was the first national federal holiday to have been instituted since Memorial Day and Columbus Day had been enacted in 1968. I often wonder wha

Because WRAD is rad! You see what I did there, right? Does anyone use rad anymore? Probably not. Now that I'm done aging and embarrassing myself, I wanted to draw your attention to the upcoming World Read Aloud Day on February 4, 2026. LitWorld started WRAD back in 2010, and I've been participating since my first picture book came out in 2021. WRAD celebrates the importance of reading aloud, a form of storytelling, as a means of building community and championing literacy. R

It's March 21, and that means World Down Syndrome (Ds) Day ! Why March 21? The date, 3/21, is representative of the trisomy of the 21st chromosome, the presence of a partial or full copy of chromosome 21, which results in Ds. Learn more about Ds here at NDSS. Each year, WDSD celebrates a particular theme, and this year, aptly, the theme is "Improve our support systems." That seems especially important at a time, in a climate, when supports as well as sentiments of and effor