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Wow, if you think your Thanksgiving was sub-par or just average, read a few of the thousands of posts Martha Stewart got when she asked readers to talk about the lessons they learned from their worst Thanksgivings ever. Burned turkeys, plumbing clogged, sliced hands in the electric knife, bad arguments with friends and relations! It’s…

Thanksgiving can be a tough time for people who don’t eat poultry, especially when their relatives are enthusiastic meat eaters. No doubt plenty of vegans are sitting down to a family meal that disgusts them, and families aren’t always as sympathetic as they should be since many devoted meat eaters still can’t understand how anyone…

If your kids love to to sculpt their food before they eat it, they’ll love this.

I found a choppy, but fact-filled run-down on the religious upbringing of late, great film director Robert Altman: “Catholicism was, to me, school,’ he has said. “It was restrictions; it was things you had to do. It was your parents. It was Mass on Sunday and fish on Friday. And then when I got out…

Janene Mascarella wrote a wonderful piece for The Washington Post about the powerful experience of thanking people who’d been helpful to her in the past. Often nervous that the folks she was thanking would find her absurdly nutty, she was consistently met with astonishment and gratitude. Read the whole piece here.

Well, why not? The website TheGratitudeList.com sells aprons and T-shirts that will keep your gratitude close to your heart all year, not just on Thanksgiving. The blog at this site is just getting going, but you’ll find several nice posts including one that translates “thank you” into virtually every language.

Deepak Chopra was schooled in medicine, but his greatest love has always been the study of the soul. His views in the new book “Life After Death: The Burden of Proof” seem especially relevant, as death seems–rightly or wrongly–closer to us all in this post-9/11 world. I encourage you to read Laura Sheahen’s conversation with…

Sweet essay here on BustedHalo.com (the online mag for seekers in their 20s and 30s). In it, author Jeff Guhin gets into a conversation on saintly behavior with the Catholic teens he teaches.

Well, someone had to improve the standard cookie cutter.

I usually shell chestnuts the night before Thanksgiving. A couple of nights before Thanksgiving, if I’m smart. Chestnut purée was a standard side dish at my mother’s Thanksgiving dinner, and in honor of her, I try to include it at ours. The challenge comes in dealing with the chestnuts, which are a pain to cook,…
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