Politics Through A Rural Lens
This Thanksgiving, lots of Macy’s employees will be curtailing their time with family because the department store chain will open its doors on Thanksgiving evening at 6:00 pm, two hours earlier than it unlocked the doors last year.
Black Friday isn’t on Friday any more. The Thanksgiving holiday has become an almost weeklong slug fest among major retailers.
If you don’t want retailers to open their doors on Thanksgiving, the choice is simple-put another log on fire and stay home.
The Friday Photo
November 29, 2013
Every family has its own traditions. One of ours includes making sausage each year.
This is most of the 120 lbs made by four generations earlier today. It will be frozen, shared among seven households, and enjoyed until it is all gone.
I’ve posted this before, but revisited it too late the night before Thanksgiving. In hunting up a current link, I learned that the director, Gary Weis, spent most of his time filming at Kennedy in an international concourse, betting that people arriving from such long distances would be emotional. He said the woman holding flowers hadn’t seen her sister in 25 years.
Can’t we take a break at least on Thanksgiving to be thankful for what we already have, and who matters in our lives? http://garyweis.com/snl/snl.html