Our family's Thanksgiving dinner seating chart isn't about politeness or proximity to the food.

It's a strategic battlefield plan to minimize exposure to Uncle Steve's political theories and Aunt Carol's 'When are you getting married?' interrogation.

My dad spends weeks bragging about his 'secret recipe' for the Thanksgiving turkey.

The secret ingredient, we've discovered, is usually 20 extra minutes in the oven and a fire extinguisher.

At my family's Thanksgiving dinner, we have a special tradition

We all bring our appetites and our opinions, but only one of them is welcome to stay for dessert

Why did the cranberry sauce go to the doctor?

It was feeling a little saucy and had a berry bad cough!