Category: My Thematic Experiment

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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