Thanksgiving 101: Celebrate America's Favorite Holiday with America's Thanksgiving Expert
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
We wanted to wish everyone in the U.S. a very happy Thanksgiving! And for those who don’t celebrate the holiday, happy Thursday (to read more about U.S. Thanksgiving, read here)! Below are some fun articles to read about Thanksgiving; don’t forget to check out our blogroll to keep up with international news and blogging! We return [...]
MultiCultClassics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Given what we know now, one can’t help but wonder what really happened between the Pilgrims and Native Americans at the first Thanksgiving celebration.
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | yesterday
As I prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday, I am reminded of the autumnal harvest time's spiritual significance. As a time of connectedness, I pause to acknowledge what I have to be thankful for. But I also reflect on the holiday as a time of remembrance - historical and familial. Historically, I am reminded that for many Native Americans, Thanksgiving is not a cause of celebration, but rather a National...
Alone on a Limb (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
I am a blessed man in too many ways to enumerate. A loving wife. Two great young women who call me "Dad". A brilliant and adoring and adorable mother. A generous and thoughtful extended family of five sisters, a brother, and a whole passel of neices and nephews and the resulting greats and in-laws. I married into another whole wonderful family that treats me like blood kin. I live in the...
Soul Meets World (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Today we celebrate Thanksgiving in America, a day of thanks and gratitude for all that we have, but let’s not limit it to one day. Let us feel the spirit rising in us that has risen in so many others to be grateful of our accomplishments and failures, for our loves and our losses, for everything that has brought us forward to this point in time. The Pilgrims were impoverished and made seven...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thanksgiving is upon us and once again mothers and wives are being targeted as overbearing naggers. Despite the fact that women perform most of the tasks involved in throwing a holiday celebration, women are seen as the enemy. One New York Times article, Food, Kin and Tension at Thanksgiving, described a variety of family members that scold, [...]
The Common Room (Free subscription) | yesterday
There are some great Thanksgiving Day coloring pages, free printables, here. They also have links to crafts and Thanksgiving stories and poems. I have a number of Thanksgiving day stories, poems, and other extras set to go up all throughout the day tomorrow. I got most of them from this book: Thanksgiving : its origin, celebration and significance as related in prose at Googlebooks.
Right Coast (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's thanksgiving time again. A time for family to get together and reconnect over the uniquely traditional American meal of Turkey, stuffing, cranberries, pumpkin pie and all the trimmings. It is a time to thank God for our blessings and be grateful for all we have. In this country; we are grateful to be in the most free country of all the world. For myself, I am most grateful for my children and...
Jewish Internet Defense Force (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Rabbi Michael Broyde, My Jewish Learning To most American Jews, even most Orthodox Jews, there is no question about the appropriateness of celebrating to Thanksgiving; to them, it is a secular holiday that represents values important in Judaism and in American culture. To many traditionalist Jews, however, commemorating any non-Jewish holiday raises questions about biblical and rabbinic law forbidding...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Child performers, Towson band to be part of celebration When Amanda Yuan of Clarksville was 3 years old, she would often hide under the tables at preschool, too shy to play with the other kids. Her parents decided to get her involved in anything that would bolster her social skills, and signed her up at a drama learning center.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Child performers, Towson band to be part of celebration Amanda Yuan, 11, seen pictured in the play "Annie" at Toby's Restaurant and Dinner Theater, has been selected to perform in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City along with Lauren Harkins, 15, of Silver Spring and Jordan Silver, 15, of Davidsonville.
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brooklyn Beat of Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn writes: Along with the usual, traditional Thanksgiving Day Fare, tonite we were thinking of making polenta with cranberries which we saw in the NY Times last week (101 holiday side dishes), and our new tradition (from last year, I just started it), of Yorkshire Pudding which is fun in an Angleterre sort of way. I have friends who always celebrate Thanksgiving...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the latest bit of right-wing lunacy on health care reform, RedState.com writer "hogan" brazenly compares health care reform bills to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941--inanely adding that if health care reform passes, you can "say goodbye to freedom." Indeed, a brutal sneak attack that obliterated or wounded at least 3,500 Americans on an early Sunday morning is certainly...
Weiwen's religion blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
As Americans go to share Thanksgiving meals with family, Rev. Giles Fraser writes for Ekklesia about the liberation meal that Christians share over Eucharist : “I promise you that many will come from the East and from the West to take their place at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in heaven’s reign.” So it says in Matthew's Gospel (8.11). Well, we as a family drove up from south...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last night, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama held their first state dinner at the White House. According to Politico , the "first couple applied their formal-but-comfortable style to a social event with international implications," with the President toasting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a giant tent on the White House lawn, "Mr. Prime Minister, today...
The 3 latest articles published by users on Thanksgiving :
tuckerdnk | 11/23/2008
Shirley’s intimate Thanksgiving get-together with Carl turns into a dysfunctional family affair when she invites Alan, Denny, Jerry, and Katie — as well as emotionally unstable law partner Edwin Poole (Larry Miller) and his six-year-old foster son, who tried to mug her — to join them in the feast.
elliottxyz | 11/21/2008
Shirley’s intimate Thanksgiving get-together with Carl turns into a dysfunctional family affair when she invites Alan, Denny, Jerry, and Katie — as well as emotionally unstable law partner Edwin Poole (Larry Miller) and his six-year-old foster son, who tried to mug her — to join them in the feast.
caimilv | 11/20/2008
Shirley’s intimate Thanksgiving get-together with Carl turns into a dysfunctional family affair when she invites Alan, Denny, Jerry, and Katie — as well as emotionally unstable law partner Edwin Poole (Larry Miller) and his six-year-old foster son, who tried to mug her — to join them in the feast.
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