Anticipate your Thanksgiving. This is the first gathering since - well you know what.

[3Hotdogs]

There will (or will not) be the usual drama that is carried over from years gone by. Then, some of us may have maggots at the dinner table.

So, how do you figure it will go?


Me? I expect to have nothing to report or expect. I will be going to my step-daughter's. Her, her husband and two college age kids. No maggots. And as a family, they are the best I could have ever hoped for.



A bit of background so as to make the relationship with my stepdaughter a bit more interesting. Things started off on BAD footing. I started dating her mother about two years after her divorce. There was immediate resentment. I overheard her telling her mother that she can't stand me.

For about a year and a half, interaction was perfunctory pleasant.

Then one day, she announced to her mother, "I've never seen you as happy with Dad as you are with Jack." That was about 20 years ago.

Her mom (my life partner) died 10 years ago, after a 23 year relationship.

We are still together as a family.

I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving.