I don't celebrate the traditional holidays anymore! They are all phony. The only holidays I celebrate now are Halloween, my Birthday, and Walpurgisnacht. New Years Day is just a modern Bacchanalia. Who needs it? People drink themselves sick the night before. Then, they make resolutions they aren't going to keep. What is the point? I suppose it is good for the liquor industry. That is true for other holidays, too.
St. Patrick's Day is an interesting one. Why should I celebrate a saint? I know nothing about old St. Patty except that he was an engineer. I have read about other saints and early church fathers that led lives of debauchery until they were too old to debauch any further. What the church is trying to tell you with those stories is that anybody can repent and be welcomed by God. Of course, that means giving up some of your money to the church! Male-dominated Christianity is not as forgiving of the sins of women as they are of men! SATAN IS THE ONE THAT TRULY LOVES THE SINNER!!!
I do acknowledge Memorial Day. I am a veteran myself, and I feel an obligation to honor those who gave their lives in defense of this nation. Whether they died in wars that made sense or not, they still gave up their lives so that all of us could have the freedoms we enjoy.
Independence Day is a day of barbeque when I am lucky enough to get it (I have never learned to barbeque). I have ambivalent feelings about this day. Although the constitution gives many freedoms, those freedoms were not extended to women, African slaves, or Native Americans at the time of its writing. Certainly, over the decades, things have changed in order to form a more perfect union. More perfect, not perfect!
Columbus Day? Forget it! Columbus discovered America? Oh, please! Did the Native Americans not know this land was here? There are good arguments that Leif Erikson, a Viking Pagan was here centuries before Columbus arrived. But, you know Western History---nothing ever got done until some white Christian male did it! What a crock!
Christmas? Don't even want to talk about it here! I have created another web page of Xmas ravings you can link on to at the bottom of this page.
For a few years, I celebrated Beltain in Pagan Fashion; Samhain on October 31st; and the Saturnalia from December 17 until December 24. It was fun. But, I don't anymore. I lost interest. So, now I celebrate my three holidays by myself in whatever fashion strikes me at the time. It's all baloney, anyway!