Ever since graduating, I have missed my high school’s annual Thanksgiving Assembly with a powerful gut-punch of nostalgia. We would gather in the C/A and, after a few words from the headmistress, start lining up on either side of the stage– students, teachers, administrators, coaches, all – to read our lists of thanks. You worked [...]
Posts Tagged ‘thanksgiving’
23 Nov
why buy it when you can make it yourself: part pumpkin puree
Just in time for Thanksgiving. Break from your chains of supermarket servitude! Make your own pumpkin puree! Avoid that last-minute, second-circle-of-Hell run to the grocery store on Thursday morning because you forgot a can of Libby’s on your Official Tuesday Trip, only in between the pounds of butter, pounds of potatoes, overpriced pecans and vats [...]
8 Nov
what to do with applesauce
And so we begin daylight savings fall as we left equinox fall: with applesauce. Once you’ve cooked and blitzed your fall haul into a velvety puree (review the how-to here — quite as easy and luscious as it looks), what’s to be done with it? I put forth one suggestion, which isn’t to say you [...]
25 Nov
pre-thanksgiving: a light(er) take
Don’t share this super-duper secret revelation with just anyone, but between you and me: law school is hard work. So hard, in fact, that Billy eighty-sixed his initial Pacific-side Thanksgiving break plans and stayed (is staying! is now!) in Iowa. And while our ceaselessly diligent worker bee kicks course outlines and exam prep into second [...]
