This Thanksgiving weekend, as I watched events unfold abroad, I was most grateful that the foolishness of election time is over.
Vicky Ward | Posted 12.01.2008 | Style
For me, last week, the uncertainty of things in New York was, for a moment, overwhelming. I climbed into my bed in the afternoon and wished I could return to England.
August J. Pollak | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
Respecting a holiday with ancient traditions dating as far back as 2005.
Robert Creamer | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
Two of my wife's constituents had been holed up in their hotel room at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai. They had been there for over a day avoiding the terrorist gunmen that still stalked its corridors.
John Lundberg | Posted 11.30.2008 | Living
I once heard a nutrition expert claim that no matter how much you eat, it's impossible to gain a pound during a meal. Well, on one day a year, all of...
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 11.29.2008 | Style
The turkey's finally digested and another online shopping season is in high gear, so with your indulgence here's my plug for New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund merchandise.
John Ridley | Posted 11.28.2008 | Living
Didn't know this one. Native Americans make up barely one percent of the population, but 1.6% of our military forces. Why even bother with this bit of trivia? Two reasons.
Candy Spelling | Posted 11.28.2008 | Style
I worship those who donate their time and money to help others. But I have no words for the concept of shoppers trampling a store employee and fellow shoppers to make the most of Black Friday.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.28.2008 | Living
Thanksgiving is a day to remember not only how fortunate we are, but those for whom a warm bed, and a hot meal are elusive wishes.
Cheryl Saban | Posted 11.28.2008 | Living
I took time out from baking and cleaning to whisper a silent prayer; to acknowledge that in the midst of all our holiday indulging, many people across the globe are suffering.
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 11.28.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street climbed again Friday, wrapping up its biggest five-day rally in more than 75 years, even as investors digested signs of a...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home
Happy Sandwich Day -- aka the Day After Thanksgiving. As you prepare your leftover turkey sandwiches, our HuffPost bloggers have fresh food for thought: their takes on what we have to be grateful for, and where we can do better. In the meantime, we can't let the moment pass without mentioning the week's biggest turkey: Hank Paulson who, in yet another abrupt about-face, suddenly can't give away taxpayers' money fast enough. Now he wants another $800 billion on top of the original $700 billion. All doled out with an utter lack of clarity, transparency, and the promised oversight. It's a bailout feast for Wall Street; a trip to the food bank for Main Street. Gobble, gobble, Hank.
Mona Gable | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
Sometimes going 10,000 miles from home is the only sensible thing to do. On Thanksgiving night I'm flying to South Africa, where I'll be traveling for several days with a group of American bloggers.
Joseph Romm | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
8.) The Thrilla in Vanilla. OK, it wasn't Ali-Frazier, but Henry Waxman's smackdown of John Dingell for chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee was high drama with high consequences.
Gary Hart | Posted 11.27.2008 | Living
The geniuses of Wall Street, with their twisted version of capitalism, have conspired to steal not only Christmas but also the nation's traditional day for counting its blessings.
Art Brodsky | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
The White House put a picture of a sled bringing in the Christmas Tree on the cover of a card to Joe Lieberman that was supposed to celebrate Hanukkah. Do you suppose they could all just leave early?
James Moore | Posted 11.27.2008 | Living
I recall many memories every Thanksgiving. And I think of all those that are yet to be made. But none are possible without my country. My American blessings are uncountable.
Liz Black | Posted 11.27.2008 | Style
For every Thanksgiving day that I've stuffed my face, there has been a five am wake-up call provided by my mother in order to begin the wonderfully stressful day of Black Friday shopping.
RJ Eskow | Posted 11.27.2008 | Living
I can't shake the feeling that something big is happening in the world right now. Something really big. I don't know if it will be bad or good -- or maybe it will first be bad and then be good. But whatever it is, it will be interesting.
John Seery | Posted 11.27.2008 | Living
So the rug has dog pee on it. No big deal. If I have a fitful night of sleep these days, the cause of my wee-hour agitation is usually that I can hardly wait for the next day to commence. No kidding.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 11.27.2008 | Living
A friend asked me the other day what I'm grateful for in life. I thought for a few moments and said, "It's fortitude." Life presents sharp curves at times.
Kay Goldstein | Posted 11.27.2008 | Living
On this Thanksgiving, we face the uncertainties and sufferings wrought by a faltering economy. Not all of us feel abundant right now. Yet, a grateful heart is an open heart.
Sharon Glassman | Posted 11.27.2008 | Living
Is Thanksgiving catching you between a rock and a hard place, emotionally? Here are five ways to feel thankful (or thankfuller, if you're already into the T-zone), fast.
Etan Bednarsh | Posted 11.27.2008 | Entertainment
The first Thanksgiving was an amalgam of individuals and groups fused through a manufactured sense of community, with people thrust, tentatively, into foreign roles.
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 11.27.2008 | Style
Even if you overeat at Thanksgiving, what you do on that one day will not determine your weight a year from now. It is what you do on average, over time, that determines what you weigh.
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Roxana Badin | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics