Today is Sunday, May 13, 2012 - another beautiful sunny day with temps in the high 70s. I'm grateful for another day of "I'm HIV" once again.
Today I walked 36 minutes = 2.0 miles for a May total of 31.3 miles. My weight was at 163.0 pounds.
A LITTLE HISTORY LESSON about Mother's Day - because it is MOTHER'S DAY today. Mother's Day is always the second Sunday in May. Mother's Day was made a national observance day in 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill passed by Congress. The roots of Mother's Day go back to the 1870s. Julia Ward Howe, the poet, tried to get some kind of observance going in the 1870s but it never caught on. In the 1880s and 1890s a West Virginia woman, Anna Jarvis, promoted a day to honor mothers - her motovation was to try and reunite families and friends in West Virginia who had been split by choosing sides in the Civil War. Anna died but her dughter, Anna M. Jarvis kept the struggle going for some kind of Mother's Day. So Anna M. organized the first official Mother's Day with an observance at her Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, on May 10, 1908. That date is usually recognized as the beginning of our modern day observance of Mother's Day.
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