Some years ago, I tired of the seemingly vacuous sentiment of Thanksgiving — a holiday celebrated in much of the United States by demonstrations of excess. Excessive gorging, drinking, feasting on fattening foods and then, when the coma wears off, stampeding the malls to spend what little you don’t have. So I started to celebrateContinue reading “Happy Snakesgiving!”
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Uncle Barry’s Sidewalk
So, every year at Thanksgiving, we travel to Uncle Barry’s(not to be confused with my brother, Little Barry who comes on here every so often) house in Maryland. When we leave, we are certain to leave an echo of our brain-stimulating presence by drawing in chalk all over the walkway. Typically, there is a winterContinue reading “Uncle Barry’s Sidewalk”