Yesterday, someone I follow on Twitter sent out a tweet saying: “Don’t give Black Friday your Black Dollars!” It resonated with me because I’ve always witnessed Christmas, as an outsider non-Christian, as a time when Americans go a little bit crazy about buying stuff. Now as it seems people are waking up from a 30-plus-year [...]
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Turkey Time
I’m still full. We had an early Thanksgiving dinner, and it’s been nearly 24 hours, and I am still full. The practice of over-stuffing our gullets became a short but worthwhile topic of conversation with our fellow eaters last night, wondering why such an American tradition revolves around eating so much we feel like we [...]
Posted by Shoshana Hebshi on November 22, 2009
http://shebshi.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/turkey-time/
