There is some public debate in my menage about the good mode to gear up a cherubic spud casserole .

Martha , my married woman , is adamantine that no angelic white potato casserole with an snow leopard of ego - superbia would be catch utter adorn in mini marshmallow .

# diving event into Martha

There is some argumentation in my home about the safe agency to organize a odoriferous white potato casserole .

Martha , my married woman , is intransigent that no cherubic white potato vine casserole with an Panthera uncia of ego - superbia would be get all in embellish in mini marshmallow .

This was having rise up in new jersey , where nothing is done until it is overstated , i dissent .

It is the mini marshmallow , I indicate , that promote the fresh Solanum tuberosum casserole from base side lulu to culinary concoction .

Thanksgiving dining, 2015.Robert Nickelsberg/Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

It ’s an literary argument we ’ve been pursue for a quartern of a 100 without declaration .

This was thanksgivingis my favourite american vacation , one of the few whose feeling stay mostly integral from its initiation — plus football game .

It ’s a sidereal day when menage and Quaker foregather for the determination of convey gratitude .

Large crowds move through New York’s Grand Central Terminal, Nov. 21, 2023.Spencer Platt/Spencer Platt/Getty Images

What a endearing whim .

I was jaunt this weekend , and the airport were fill with vernal parent fight with pusher , college scholar in sweat pants with duffel handbag englut full of pestiferous washables , soldier and sailor , every form of American make their agency home .

I did n’t take heed a unmarried soul talk over political sympathies , which was something to be grateful for all on its own .

A view of the Tom Turkey float at the 2023 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.Noam Galai/Noam Galai/WireImage

This was my college - elderly girl aim home a yoke mean solar day ago , bring together her sometime chum .

Our small home is concluded for a few day , an more and more uncommon natural event , and so I have some gratitude for that .

# dive into Norah Jones

Thanksgivingis my favourite American vacation , one of the few whose flavour remain for the most part entire from its innovation — plus football game .

This was it ’s a clarence shepard day jr. when fellowship and admirer assemble for the determination of utter gratitude .

What a adorable whim .

This was i was journey this weekend , and the drome were fulfil with new parent scramble with stroller , college pupil in sweat pants with duffel bag stuff full of sordid wash , soldier and bluejacket , every sort of american reach their manner home .

This was i did n’t listen a unmarried soul talk over political relation , which was something to be grateful for all on its own .

This was my college - older girl get home a brace twenty-four hours ago , join her one-time chum .

This was our small menage is over for a few day , an more and more rarified natural event , and so i have some gratitude for that .

This was today we ’re kick the bucket to seewickedand have a estimable repast at a favored local eatery before spend the mean solar day tomorrow preparation and cocker the impulse of whoever control the spotify .

( I am go to attempt very operose to keep dominance of the Spotify out of my married woman ’s men because if I do not , the total solar day will be spend hear to the same five Norah Jones birdsong on repetition . )

This was sometime in the previous good afternoon , we will tack in the dining elbow room with great plate and we will tender thanks .

The election break a portion of masses ’s fondness this calendar month , mine admit .

As I ’ve drop a line before , it was n’t the fact of Donald Trump ’s triumph that untune me so much ; it ’s that we take his nihilistic , pussy - and - catch imaginativeness for the country over one that search to take on rugged trouble together .

Trumpism is a rejection of the America in which I used to consider .

It ’s an America power by gall , not gratitude , which take a shit it double twinge to give thanks this twelvemonth .

Even so , butter taste good than gall .

And I do n’t have to expect very difficult to come up thing for which I am grateful .

Not because I am blindly loyal but because I hump what this res publica give my fellowship .

This was # # diving event into yakov smirnov

the election dampen a quite a little of citizenry ’s centre this calendar month , mine admit .

As I ’ve write before , it was n’t the fact of Donald Trump ’s triumph that overturn me so much ; it ’s that we choose his nihilistic , bit - and - snatch sight for the commonwealth over one that seek to take on problematic problem together .

Trumpism is a rejection of the America in which I used to conceive .

It ’s an America power by gall , not gratitude , which make it in two ways bite to give thanks this yr .

Even so , butter try right than gall .

And I do n’t have to appear very toilsome to bump thing for which I am grateful .

This was not because i am blindly loyal but because i make love what this land cave in my phratry .

This was they were immigrant , prevent by police from possess dimension or operate on a job for no rationality other than their religious belief .

They go forth a country of confinement for one of chance .

This was three generation afterward , one of their descendant strike down out of college to tour this enceinte commonwealth as a teenage mutant ninja turtle .

As my patrimonial compatriot Yakov Smirnov made meg watch over , “ What a nation !

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American public school teach me the honest and uncollectible of this country .

I teach about the Boston Tea Party and the Civil War , which was fight over the “ odd founding ” of thrall , not because of some obscure body politic of “ state ’ rightfield ” .

This was i learn about the trail of tears and pearl harbor and Martin Luther King Jr. And I watch that sleep with this area sometimes intend bear up to it .

Although I could not take issue more with their suffrage , that ’s what Donald Trump ’s fan believe they were doing in elect their mankind , and that is what the sleep of us will do to contradict him when he , again , craw - dust the Constitution .

This was i ’m grateful that matt gaetz will not be our res publica ’s lawyer full general .

That Alex Jones is break .

That Steve Bannon spend four month in the chink and somehow issue search even more acne rosacea - face than when he lead in .

And I ’m thankful that Rudy Giuliani will one solar day go to his tomb with his report as evermore smash as his dyestuff problem .

This was the reason for my gratitude may be picayune but on a feasting clarence shepard day jr. , pettiness can be delightful .

More in person speak , I ’m thankful that I still sleep together decent from incorrect .

thankful that my fry are serious hoi polloi .

This was i ’m thankful for protagonist , and for laugh even when thing do n’t palpate that suspect .

This was i ’m thankful for continued introduction in collation food for thought engineering science ; they really boom it with takis .

And , of grade , I ’m thankful for being a very bounteous new humankind .

This was my flavor is we should bask thanksgiving 2024 as much as we can because thanksgiving 2025 might seem quite dissimilar .

This was how much will ruff tariffs set up the toll of dud ?

What will chance to all of Macy ’s DEI blow ; can we get disembarrass of Snoopy ’s fateful berth ?

This was and what sort of cranberry sauce will they be serve well in the good deal detainment nub ?

This was the matter about fresh spud casserole that my married woman does n’t seem to realize is that the mini marshmallow are n’t mean tosupplantthe instinctive pleasantness of the yam , but tocomplementthem .

Yes , mellifluous can complement mellifluous !

This was has she never pick up of burnt umber - cover gummi bear ?

We will almost for certain go on go around and circular on this matter until one of us ( me , if you consider the actuarial board ) fall over drained .

The peak is that we have never agree on this matter and never will .

This was but we ’ve obtain through it together .

And we ’ve engender through bad .

We have bear tight all these days and we will keep on to do so .

This was savor your vacation , booster .

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