Make your own holiday

Today is Make Your Own Holiday Day. Think of something to celebrate, then go out and do it. And thank a wacky Pennsylvania couple for giving you permission to do it.

This is one of about 50 holidays dreamed up by Tom Roy, the mad genius behind Stay At Home Because You're Well Day (which is on his birthday in November). Tom's variety-pack of a life prepared him well for a late-in-life career as a holiday maker. He graduated with a degree in English, attended a seminary, spent two decades in radio, and acted. He married another radio broadcaster, Ruth, and lived in New York, Philadelphia, and then moved to small town PA to work at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire. Unsurprisingly, his big role in the Faire was as Don Quixote.

The way Tom reasons, everybody deserves permission to celebrate. We at Easterween applaud this philosophy, because it happens to be our own. Tom took it one step further and began sending holiday submissions to Chase's Annual Events directory. Eventually, he adopted the fake organizational name Wellness Permission League, which is listed as the sponsor of many of the entries in Chase's directory.

For March 26th, however, Tom came up short of ideas.

That's where you come in. Imagine today is a big paper form with a blank line at the top next to the date. Pencil in your own celebration. Fill in the other gaps in the page...the ones that follow sentence openings like "Today, we ____________ " and "At _____ , everybody in the room is supposed to ___________"

If you like, write to us about what you do. Or just celebrate in your own special way. Because it's all about doing it for yourselves today.

Go forth, and celebrate!