By Michael Kaufman
Thanksgiving at our house will be a little different this year as my wife and I face one of the burning issues of our time:Can an obsessively compulsive woman and a man with attention deficit disorder live together in peace and harmony?

By Jeffrey Page
By the very extent of his cruelty and evil, mercy is not possible. I would press the plunger on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

By Carrie Jacobson
The final chapter!

By Shawn Dell Joyce
For pennies a year, we could help farm workers earn a living wage.

By Carrie Jacobson
November steals the edges of color from the center of our days.

By Bob Gaydos
Oh happy day, let the children out to play. Lou Dobbs has “left” CNN. Maybe there is still hope for serious journalism on cable television.

By Jeffrey Page
Disagreement over policy is one thing, but how can you take a talk show host seriously when he tolerates a slanderous attack on the president of the United States?

By Carrie Jacobson
In this next-to-last chapter, Zoe and Kaja get tantalizingly close to their goal.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
Buying and eating local food embodies the spirit of the first Thanksgiving, where Puritans and Wampanoags sat down together to share a meal that consisted mainly of shellfish, eels, wild fowl and other local foods. It also helps local farmers. Where to find holiday ingredients locally.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
“Mary/Mary” is a large-scale self portrait in oil on reused wood panels. The painting explores the feminist archetypes of the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene or woman as both holy mother and Earth mother. For more info visit www.ShawnDellJoyce.com