Thanksgiving

The long Thanksgiving weekend is filled with great games for football lovers. Here's what to watch:

Thanksgiving is tomorrow, some of you may even be on the road right now already heading to a relative's house. Some may already be preparing some of the dishes for tomorrow's feast. At my Thanksgiving meal, we always have leftovers.

The night before Thanksgiving is generally considered to be the biggest bar night of the year. Most everybody has the next day off, friends and family you don't always get to see are in town, and nobody wants to entertain at home when they're going to be doing so much cooking the next day. So everyone goes out to party!

Thanksgiving is on record as being America’s second-favorite holiday (Christmas wins first prize, of course), so it makes sense that Thanksgiving lore is a part of our shared cultural history and something we start learning early in our lives. But it turns out a lot of what we think we know about Turkey Day is wrong.

I found a pretty interesting article about a weird Thanksgiving tradition from the past.  About 100 years ago, kids didn't go trick-or-treating on Halloween, they did it on Thanksgiving. It was called "Thanksgiving Masking."  Kids would dress up as beggars and hobos, wear masks and go door-to-door for candy and pennies. No one's exactly sure when it ended, but it lasted in some areas thr

Thanksgiving, of course, is a time to pause and reflect about all the good in our lives, but what exactly are we thankful for this year?

Thanksgiving is only a few days away, and I have my elastic sweatpants ready! Thanksgiving is known for turkey, mashed potatoes, rolls and dressing, but I have an aunt that brings pink stuff every Thanksgiving. I don't eat it, I never have, I don't even know what's in it, and the fact that it's called pink stuff frightens me. I figured I couldn't be the only one who had a family member bring somet

Thanksgiving is next Thursday (Nov. 28), and a lot of people have been putting together the family gatherings and watching the weather patterns to see if travel is going to be treacherous.  AAA reported that 43.4 million Americans will be traveling 50 miles or more during the holiday weekend this year.

Thanksgiving, which we've been celebrating in America for centuries now, is a time of family, food and, especially, tradition. Even so, many of the stories we take as gospel about this wonderful holiday—wonderful if you’re not endlessly bickering with your relatives, that is—aren’t true at all. Myth, legend and wishful thinking play into a lot of the misconceptions surrounding Turkey Day. Read Mor

So, I'm not a huge cook.  I don't tend to have much skill in that arena. I guess it just doesn't come naturally to me.  I can do it, I just don't tend to do it on the regular, if you will.  I tend to pull out all the stops maybe once a year: Thanksgiving.  So here's what I might be doing, and you can let me know what you might do.