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Holiday Watch: The Thanksgiving House

In The Thanksgiving House, lawyer Mary Ross gets hit with two surprises: that she has inherited a house in Plymouth, Massachusetts which …

Holiday Watch: Naughty or Nice

When your name is Krissy Kringle, you’re bound to get a lot of grief around Christmas time. But what if you could level the playing field a bit? What if you had Santa’s list of Naughty and Nice to help you mete out justice? Could you handle the list?

Holiday Watch: Love At the Thanksgiving Day Parade

One of the holidays given short shrift during holiday movie season is Thanksgiving. When they are made, it usually centers around the holiday feast. But what about the traditional parade? No, not the one in New York, the one in Chicago? When an enthusiastic parade coordinator finds herself butting heads with a corporate scrooge, holiday fireworks are bound to ignite.

The Thankful Thing, 2009 Edition

Here we are. What am I thankful for in this past year?

My 2008 Cornucopia of Thanks

2008 has been a year of re-emergence. After a few years of enduring my father’s decline with an undignifying illness, my immediate family and I have had a year to discover what the world is like when it is what we make of it. So, my first serving of thanks goes to

The Care and Feeding of Vegetarians Over Thanksgiving and Beyond

With Thanksgiving in the U.S. coming nigh, I just wanted to mention somethings to all of you well-meaning cooks trying to accommodate your vegetarian kith and kin. This is not intended to be all-inclusive, but I’ve been a vegetarian since about 1980 and trust me, this stuff comes up more often than you’d think.