Light and Variable: A Year of Celebrations, Holidays, Recipes, and Emily Dickinson

In Light and Variable, the reader is invited to join celebrated Oklahoma essayist and commentator Connie Cronley on a delightful romp through the calendar year. Honest, unpretentious, and laced with self—deprecating humor, the essays in this book revolve around special holidays or events, some of which you may never have heard of—Festival of Sleep Day, National Failures Day, and Blame Someone Else Day.

Against a backdrop of celebrations and seasons, Cronley marvels at subjects close to her ...