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Ann Tudor shares with us the farmhouse-style Thanksgiving Day feast of her childhood ”a groaning board attended by cousins, aunts, uncles, and one gruff grandfather. The food - and the unique family recipes Ann reveals - is what really counts!

Making use of neighborhood trees, cheerful robins, and bulb-hunting squirrels, as an urban dweller Ann Tudor - through her essays and poetry - works at staying in tune with what really counts: the sustaining beauty of the natural world.

With wry, dry humor, Ann Tudor explores the physical and mental phenomena of aging, chronicling the incremental changes that assail us on our way to the Land of Old. Beneath it all is a deep awareness of the possibility of spiritual development as we move toward the inevitable end.

In the run-up to Christmas, the point of the game has always been to find the parents' stash of not-yet-wrapped Christmas presents. But what a let-down it is if you actually find them! In these stories, you experience Christmas in a rural Midwest town in the 1940s and 1950s. Six rowdy children approach the day with a mixture of rampant greed, enforced piety, and a hunger for family traditions even as they are being created.

Eileen, my mother (we called her Eileen instead of "mother"), always seemed a bit bemused to find herself raising six lively children in in a small Midwestern town. Our father used to say they had three before they knew what was causing it. Nevertheless, when life sent her down this unexpected path, Eileen faced the challenges of bringing up six rowdy kids with humor, a generous if naive spirit, and a lot of creativity.