Comments on: Back in MO

By: Tony Romo

Tony Romo — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:14:00 +0000

nice article. Tony Romo needs to settle down and play football, forget the gals until he wins a Super Bowl!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:06:25 +0000

My in-laws have a neat tradition of having Thanksgiving in the woods. They go out to the land the family has owned for several generations and put the good on old picnic tables. We sit on benches in the woods and eat together. After that, we hike together the same path each year across the property and back to the house. It is really a neat time together and pretty unique. I love my family.

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:47:40 +0000

We still have a turkey, but we’ve added leg of lamb the last few years too. It’s all in the left overs. I almost like the day after Thanksgiving better. My daughter and I both like to cook and you can do great things with left over turkey and leg of lamb.

By: Serena Voss

Serena Voss — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:16:09 +0000

I spent Thanksgiving in Sacramento with our son, his wife and two of our four grandchildren. We ate turkey with my daughter-in-law’s family.

Some of the highlights: The annual Christmas parade in downtown Sacramento, picking oranges at a family owned grove, reading books to the grandchildren and watching favorite holiday videos.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:11:27 +0000

John, it was true about Wal-Mart but there was such pressure brought on them by their customers they have reversed their position.

An email was circulated from Wal-Mart last week announcing they would no longer donate to “controversial” programs and entities.

By: John

John — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:25:51 +0000

Mike, speaking of Wal-mart…how do we handle the new information we have recently received concerning Wal-mart’s decision to align themselves with the NGLCC (National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce) by giving them $25,000? I’ve checked it out…it’s not a hoax. http://www.snopes.com/politics/sexuality/walmart.asp

By: chris

chris — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:50:53 +0000

thanksgiving was awesome as usual. friends, family. and golf. then the bucs lost.

By: paul

paul — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:32:20 +0000

There is no place like home. There is no place like home. There is no place like home. I’ve been to everyone of those places including Jane. Thanks for the memories.

I didn’t go home this year. I just went to Memphis to share Thanksgiving with my daughter.

It is hard to believe that McDonald County is changing like that. Wal-Mart is changing the face and fate of small businesses across the country but I hate to see the old farmland get gobbled up like that.

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:52:44 +0000

We had great family time as well. Today’s OU game really topped off our celebrations!

By: Dee Andrews

Dee Andrews — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:12:23 +0000

Thanksgiving.

Smoked baby back ribs with award winning dry rub and slathered with award winning BBQ sauce! Don’t get much better.

Plus old growing up friends from Austin, Texas to share the New Orleans scene with for the weekend. Perfect weather, perfect holiday. Definitely don’t get ANY better!!

Cheers! Dee

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:37:13 +0000

Twin Bridges… that name brings back some memories of my family leaving our home in SE Missouri (Sikeston) for a trip to Branson. I had forgotten about it…

By: Jordan Hubbard

Jordan Hubbard — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:57:18 +0000

My thanksgiving was better than Colt McCoy’s. A couple of cheap shots! I seriously hope and pray that he’s okay.

By: Cari Bonneau

Cari Bonneau — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:43:38 +0000

Nothing like watching the Cowboy game in a semi-circle around a 13-inch with antennae that’s sitting on a card table in a community center in Little Rock, AR….only to go back to your aunt & uncle’s house that night & see your family back home being talked about on ESPN dubbed “the fans” that put Tony Romo’s name in the Ring of Honor. The half-page photo of the family & that sign in the Dallas Morning News today didn’t really help, either. Fame eludes us yet again.

By: G'ampa C

G'ampa C — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:38:59 +0000

Thanksgiving Day.
Out on a drilling rig in Roosevelt County, New Mexico; lots of trouble and stress.
Calls from Brad & Ethan, Leah, Monty, Patsy, Frankie, Cathryn, Julie, Gail, Laura, Wes, Bob and others wishing me well and saying that they missed me made me realize how much I am blessed. Julie told me to spend the day thinking of all the things I consider blessings.

All things considered, is anything so nourishing (on this earth) as being loved unconditionally, then told about it?
I am thankful, thankful, thankful.

By: Bobbie

Bobbie — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:45:28 +0000

Thanksgiving Day during the “In-Law Holidays” - daughters off to East Texas and Tennessee, newly divorced son leaves early from Dallas bcs 2 children with their mom & he arrives in time to accompany me to Hospitality Apartments (ecumenical-supported free housing for Houston Medical Center patients & family) Thanksgiving Dinner at Christ the King Lutheran Church across street for Rice’s football stadium. Then later in the evening a Russian father (PhD genetics researcher here at Baylor Med, mother (an MD who teaches pathology, etc. to med students and army (all male) nurses in Siberia and 26 year old son, and my good friend who practices dentistry join us for dessert and wonderful conversation. They were attracted by our ESL and FriendSpeak banners.
Christmas will be our family gathering.
Re NW ARK. My family lived near Branson on Table Rock Lake for two years in early 70’s. We’d travel thru ARK going to and returning from TX. I made my first trip back (friend’s family reunion in Rogers) this summer and it was sad. It didn’t warm my heart toward Sams/Walmart. My friend’s family, 3 generations down from their Ozark mountain/outdoor toilets & no modern plumbing ancestors now live in those posh communities. We got lost going back into Rogers one night from having been in one of those areas & guiding ourselves by the car’s compass when we suddenly rounded a wooded corner to see a huge French villa type house, landscaped w/fountains, lighted and behind a huge fenced/gated acreage. We suddenly “thought” we’d magically crossed the Atlantic and were in France!
Where is the balance with deprivation and conspicuous consumption in todays culture? I struggle with that question because I do have options & much of the world does not.
Prayers for your family’s safe return to their homes.