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  • Thanksgiving

    Being an even-numbered year, this Thanksgiving weekend was supposed to be a Logan family reunion, when we gather together and play games, make puzzles, and go on hikes. We share delicious food and our lives. We talk about what’s happened over the past two years and make predictions for the next couple. This year, we…

  • Logan Family Reunion, 2018

    Logan Family Reunion, 2018

    Another couple of years, another Logan family reunion. Our reunion has changed over the years as one generation takes the place of the prior one and the age distribution changes. This reunion was not as well attended as some before. Some family members had other places they needed or wanted to be. We miss those…

  • How to survive Thanksgiving

    How to survive Thanksgiving

    I’m studying these suggestions for surviving Thanksgiving from Sally Kohn so I can respond appropriately tomorrow. May you have a blessed, maybe apolitical, Thanksgiving! Update. It’s good to have a buddy system. Friends don’t let friends feel attacked. Have an exit strategy. Forgive everyone you possibly can.

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    I have so much to be thankful for! :-)

  • Thanksgiving, 2013

    Thanksgiving, 2013

    I’m thankful for the love of pets, friends, family, and God. May the latter three always be as obvious as the first.

  • As we gather in our communities and in our homes, …

    As we gather in our communities and in our homes, around the table or near the hearth, we give thanks to each other and to God for the many kindnesses and comforts that grace our lives. Let us pause to recount the simple gifts that sustain us, and resolve to pay them forward in the…

  • I Recommend: A Reunion Bibliography

    I Recommend: A Reunion Bibliography

    Every other Thanksgiving weekend, the Logan clan gets together to eat and talk, talk and eat. I’m not sure which we do more. It doesn’t really matter: we love both. We talk about everything, including religion and politics — even church politics. It can get interesting because we don’t agree on much everything. Hopefully, we…

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail…

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into…