Tag: thanksgiving
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November 21, 2023
Gathering together around a table is one of my favorite things in life. It’s one of Mercy Watson’s favorite things, too. Especially if there is toast. In two weeks, everyone on Deckawoo Drive will gather together one more time in Mercy Watson is Missing. The art is, of course, by the amazing Chris Van Dusen.…
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November 25, 2021
Several years ago, on Thanksgiving Day, I was walking to a friend’s house. A man crossed the sidewalk in front of me, opened his car door and then turned to me and said, “I was gone for five minutes at the most. That’s all.” “How’s that?” I said. “She ate the entire pie. In five…
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November 21, 2018
It has been pointed out to me that many of my stories end with everyone gathered together around a table, sharing food. Why? Because, to me, this seems like the happiest ending possible—to be welcomed in, to gather ‘round, to sit down with people you love, to share food (be it toast or turkey) with…
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November 30, 2017
On Thanksgiving Day I was on my way to a friend’s house, when a man walked past me with a dog. “This little lady is having a great Thanksgiving,” he said. He gestured at the dog. “She is?” I said. “Yep,” he said. The dog wagged her tail. “Yep,” said the man again. “I left…
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November 26, 2015
I woke this morning thinking about a picture that a friend took on a Thanksgiving day over a decade ago.The photograph was of my mother’s hands, folded in her lap.My mother was eighty-three years old.The photograph captured the light of the afternoon and the complicated beauty of my mother’s hands.I can’t find the actual photo.But…
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December 2, 2014
It snowed Thanksgiving night. In the morning, the world was layered in white, and I went for a walk and discovered a chair sitting on a street corner. I stopped and considered it. How many Thanksgivings has this chair seen? What conversations has it overheard? How many people have sat in it and rested their…