Entries Tagged as 'Thanksgiving'

Grateful or Not?

November 30th, 2009 No Comments

My brother has “gratitude” tattooed on his inner wrist.  The gothic script flows blue-black across his pale flesh, engraved on the pulse-point.  At quick glance, the shadow on skin disturbs me– evoking numbers stamped on a concentration camp inmate.  We are children of a Jewish father, so this cultural memory carries weight. My brother got [...]

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Thanksgiving Unplugged

November 29th, 2009 No Comments

I forgot my laptop and my digital camera this Thanksgiving.  What sweet relief. We managed to bring both girls, the dog, our bags, a pumpkin-rum pie and a cranberry-raisin pie.   A. and C. ate Grannie’s chocolate-chip cookies for snack, Redi-Whip (without pie) for the Thanksgiving feast, and vanilla ice cream cones for dessert.  Then [...]

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