I was doing a little bit of research to augment my knowledge of our favorite residents of Plymouth Rock and I found out something that I found fascinating. They thought the Puritans were too liberal. What kind of person looks at a Puritan and thinks they are not taking the whole holy thing far enough. …
November 17, 2010 archive
Nov 17
Crappy Blog Post because I wanted to go play Star Wars tabletop rpg
elcome back to another adventure into Thanksgiving past. Next week I am going to write something other than my family memories, well maybe. I am going to share one of the more interesting memories for me personally. It was my first Thanksgiving in college and my family decided to stay in Oklahoma for the holiday. …
Nov 17
Unsalted Butter
A tale of a Thanksgiving roughly eight years ago: My sister got married in 2000 and with that my mom and I stopped going down to Louisiana for some strange reason. It does not actually make much sense but not much in my family does. Two years later, my parents and I went to Dallas …
Nov 17
Thanksgiving at the State Pen
For several years of my early teenage years my aunt and her family and my grandparents worked at Louisiana State Penitentiary and lived on the grounds. The girls in my family would drive down and spend Thanksgiving at the state pen. It was more awesome than you would ever guess. As you could imagine the …
Nov 17
The Role of the Kid in the Middle
My mom, sister, and I used to go to visit my mom’s sister and her mother in Louisiana for Thanksgiving. (We even spent a few on Louisiana State Penitentiary, but that is for a later blog.) My sister is two years older than me and my cousin Bobby is nine months older than me and …
Nov 17
Family Traditions
So we all know the traditional reason for Thanksgiving; the Puritans came over with no idea how to take care of themselves over here and the Native Americans saved them from starving to death. Some of us even recognize that the Puritans started the trend of totally screwing over the Native Americans and if there …
Nov 17
November’s Theme is…
Welcome to my very first first of the month post. Because I am a masochist, I chose Thanksgiving for November. If I can write 12 separate unique posts about Thanksgiving, I figure I can write 12 posts about just about anything. I thought about cheating and writing about family holidays in general because everyone has …
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