Culture
Repeat: How to have a peaceful Thanksgiving
From turkey to cranberries to stuffing to corn to pumpkin pie, everything will cost more this year.
Thanksgiving
Culture
Putting Thanksgiving in perspective
Thanksgiving is Americans favorite holiday. That’s according to a survey I just made up, but I think it’s true. Despite the thanks-to-God aspect of it, it is nondenominational, with each of us free to thank our own God, and atheists to mock belevers in “the bearded white man
Culture
How to have a Happy Thanksgiving
Wow, Thanksgiving crept up on me. So many other things are going on I nearly missed the annual column to celebrate Turkey Day. (Not much to celebrate if you are a turkey, the noble bird Ben Franklin wanted to be our national emblem, rather than the scavenging, thieving bald eagle.
Thanksgiving
Your Thanksgiving, not mine
Today is Thanksgiving, your holiday, but not mine. I have nothing against Thanksgiving at all, but it was never a big deal in my family, nor in my neighborhood. I don’t know why. No massive ingathering of family, no huge steroid-injected bird, no sense of being in a Norman
Politics
Thanksgiving dinner? Shut up!
My family was immune from the verbal pyrotechnics that sometimes plague the major clan-gathering events at year’s end — Thanksgiving and Christmas. Why? We celebrated neither. We were not anti-American. We were Jewish and while you may understand us not hoisting a Christmas tree (although some of us did), many