Favorite Day of the Year, 2021 Edition

Canyonlands National Park, Utah; photo by the author

Today, the day before Thanksgiving, is my favorite day of the year. Each year I ask my team to share their favorite days of the year. It’s become a fun team-building tradition. Here are the results from this year (again omitting a fair number of people due to vacation, etc.):

• Christmas Eve (10)
• Saint Stephen’s Day (Boxing Day in some countries) (4)
• Thanksgiving (3)
• My birthday (2)
• Christmas Day (2)
• Day before Thanksgiving (2)
• Easter (2)
• Halloween (2)
• Diwali
• First child’s birthday
• First day of school
• First day of summer vacation*
• Friday before Labor Day
• Guru Nanak Dev Ji Gurpurab
• Independence Day (July 4)
• June Bank Holiday (first Monday of June)
• Memorial Day
• Saturday before Memorial Day
• Saint Patrick’s Day
• Summer Solstice

* This person takes a family vacation each summer.

Happy (day before) Thanksgiving!