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Today, I had intended to release the recipe for my husband\u2019s homemade pumpkin pie.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0(Actually, it\u2019s not originally Jerry\u2019s recipe.\u00a0 Many years ago, listening to WJR Radio, he heard the chef from Greenfields Restaurant in Detroit discuss Thanksgiving desserts, and he copied the recipe and made it his specialty.\u00a0 Since Greenfields burned to the ground many years ago, I guess now Jerry is the \u201ckeeper of the secret recipe.\u201d)<\/p>\n
\u00a0However, we\u2019ve moved since I last read the \u201csecret recipe\u201d; and today, I couldn\u2019t find it in the jumble of old clippings and recipe cards.\u00a0 So with Jerry\u2019s secret safe for another year, I turn to something even better than pie:\u00a0 Family Foibles!<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0On a weekend like this, gathering with family members from near and far, I can\u2019t help but chuckle (well, chuckle politely, on the inside, lest anyone feel offended). \u201cHow different we are from one another!\u201d I ponder.\u00a0 One is the \u201cclass clown\u201d who interrupts every conversation with a joke.\u00a0 Another is the organizer, lining up volunteers for dish duty, pushing to get everyone seated for games.\u00a0 One is a news junky who always knows what\u2019s going on\u2014while another is the ing\u00e9nue, marveling at month-old headlines which she\u2019s hearing for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n Picky eaters and gourmands, fashionistas and casual dressers, raucously exuberant and quietly reflective, we come together and our differences are smashed to smithereens by love.\u00a0 We are family, we belong together, and all is good.<\/p>\n Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, I had intended to release the recipe for my husband\u2019s homemade pumpkin pie.\u00a0 \u00a0(Actually, it\u2019s not originally Jerry\u2019s recipe.\u00a0 Many years ago, listening to WJR Radio, he heard the chef from Greenfields Restaurant in Detroit discuss Thanksgiving desserts, and he copied the recipe and made it his specialty.\u00a0 Since Greenfields burned to the ground […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,149,252],"tags":[2780,2827,2913],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-love","category-thankfulness","tag-family","tag-love","tag-thankfulness"],"yoast_head":"\n