
I love Thanksgiving. I always have. It's gotta be my favorite holiday. It has a different significance for me now than when I was a college kid triumphantly returning from the playground that is Boston to rural New Jersey each year. I can remember the first time we went home for Turkey from college; it was the winter of 1978. I had been gone maybe ten weeks, but it seemed like forever at that age. The night before, the best drinking night of the year, was to be spent at the local bar of choice in search of that cheerleader [...]