Downsizing Thanksgiving

This will be the second year in a row my immediate family has celebrated a very scaled-down Thanksgiving dinner. I don’t remember exactly why we didn’t produce the usual large extended family Thanksgiving get-together last year. I think it was a combination of no one wanting to commit to hosting a big spread, some relatives…

The Crown Returns…or taking a trip back to the 80’s.

I have been waiting all year for November to finally arrive. No, I’m not talking about the presidential election–the excruciatingly overwrought drama that refuses to end. Yes, by all verified accounts we did elect a new POTUS. But the current one is clearly refusing to accept the fact that his reality tv show has been…