Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. The ConductMom is in town, and she and I will be holidaying it up for the next few days. Check back in on Friday to find out the winner of the Holiday Song Parody contest, and I’ll see you back here on Sunday. May you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and a safe & sane Black Friday.

Last year, on election day, I wrote a post about how no matter what the results turned out to be, even if your guy lost and you were angry and scared about the future, certain good things would still be true. Here are some of mine:

My husband and I will still love each other and support each others’ dreams and have bread and cheese and wine by candlelight every Friday night.

Stephen King will continue on his streak of writing some of his best, most mature fiction to date.*

Campari and soda will still be the most refreshing drink ever, even if everyone else I know finds it repellently bitter.

My book will still come out this spring.

My friends will still share ideas and jokes and trials and joys and everyday moments of grace or absurdity with me.

Eddie Izzard will still be funny.

Readers sent in their own “things the election won’t change,” too. It was a good thing to do that day. All of the things I listed were things I am grateful for. And there are still reasons to be angry and scared about the state of the world, as well as reasons to be grateful and hopeful. If you’d like to share what you’re grateful and hopeful for this holiday, I’d like to hear. Because my readers are very, very high on my thanks-giving list.

*That prediction was based on Duma Key. I haven’t read Under the Dome yet. Has anyone else? Thumbs up or down?

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