Thanksgiving

On Thanksgiving I went to my grandma's house. Most of my cousins were there, my aunt's, brother, and my grandma. When we go to her house for any event we most likely will spend the night with all of our cousins. My older cousin,Savanna is one month older than me and the oldest of the young teens. Savanna is a very supervising person and always thinks she is everyone's parent or in charge and has always been like that. And it has always bothered me since we were little. This Thanksgiving my…

“Plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is.” Carl spent the rest of the day singing a song for stomach relief. Carl liked to watch football, but only if Mikey was with him. The St. Louis Cardinals played that year for the first time on Thanksgiving Day, which Carl’s father was upset about. Carl’s dad was a Cowboys fan, but Mikey liked the Cardinals and their dad let Mikey know, what a damn fool he was for it. Football was the…

The holiday season is already upon us. Soon it will be time to gather around the table with family and friends for a special Thanksgiving feast. But for those who are careful about what foods that they eat, this is no easy task. Most Thanksgiving dinners are full of saturated fats, pre-packaged ingredients, and produce that is far from healthy. Because of this, many health conscious people are starting to make a few changes to their meal preparation habits. And the first one of them is to use…

we love the places we’ve been and the memories we’ve made along the way (Anonymous). Two months ago my family and I decided to go to Ohio for Thanksgiving. It was my first Thanksgiving in America and one of the best Thanksgivings I’ve ever seen. We stayed at my uncle’s house who lives in Ohio. It was one of my best memories when I went to Ohio for Thanksgiving First, I’ve spent a lot of time with my family and friends in Ohio. We played a lot of outdoor games such as volleyball, basketball,…

smiles. November all the way to the New Year its nothing but great times with my close friends and family; we have nice traditions for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve/Day. Yum! I can smell the Cajun flavored turkey baking in the oven; see the cheese bubble on the fresh hot baked macaroni and cheese, the lovely smells of the pumpkin pies. Thanksgiving is here, cars pulling in the drive way, dishes clingy, chaotic noise from the children running wild and free, such…

My First Thanksgiving I am Waheen. My tribe is the Wampanoap tribe that lives by the ocean, and surrounded by forest. I am twenty years old and I have three young children. All of them are sons, and they are very active. Over a season ago, some White people settled down the river from our village. This morning, we heard many of the guns that these settlers carry go off over and over. It made the children cry and scared us all. Our chief gathered 90 warriors and some of us women to cook…

The Sunday after Thanksgiving, I rather spontaneously---or perhaps, I’d like to think, by the work of the Holy Spirit---got on a night bus and went to church. I arrived at St. Mark’s Cathedral to a contemplative Eucharist in their beautiful chapel. It was soft and lovely and quiet. I love the quiet. I sought it out when I came to college in Seattle, living in “the big city” for the first time this fall, more than a little overwhelmed by the sheer number of people everywhere. I looked for and…

My Thanksgiving vacation could have been more enjoyable. I did very much working over break. Starting from the beginning, on Tuesday after they released us from school, I drove all the way down to Des Moines because I had to work. I am employed at the Des Moines Buccaneers Hockey Arena. My sister Kaylee and I work in the Pirates cove. Buccaneer clothing can be purchased in the cove. It’s a USHL hockey league that boys from ages 16 to 19 play in for scholarships to colleges they have signed to.…

FORGIVING OURSELVES I know more people who have had trouble with this than I can name. This is one of the issues that people I have worked with in recovery have shared with me, “how do I forgive myself for what I have done”? That is a great question and not an easy one to answer. I have an old friend, an elderly gentleman. He always keeps it simple and says “if you want to feel good, do good” so one of the ways we can start to feel better about ourselves is to begin to perpetuate good things…

hierarchy of the American people, with the emancipation and naturalization of former slaves, through the passage of the 13th and 14th Amendment, arrival of new immigrants, and changing demographic. President Ulysses S. Grant called for a celebration of Thanksgiving to give thanks for the reunification of the Union. Using symbols and labeling, Nast depicts a picturesque, utopian American society united by their common humanity, despite their perceived differences.2 Keller employs negative racial…