May Day

May Day! May Day! No crisis or imminent danger today; Just remembrances of May Pole dances in my elementary years. Memories of a school gymnasium full of kids in our Sunday dress, maypoles with colorful ribbons, and ten minute choreography routines we performed for our parents. It was a happy, innocent time, even though there was no cotton candy, no fried food on a stick, no chocolate nor other simple carbohydrates to be found.