Thanksgiving Dinner With My Family

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Thanksgiving dinners with my family have always been particularly hectic. Rather than meet solely with my father or my mother’s side of the family, we fuse together as one family to give thanks for what we have. Despite the different backgrounds of these two families, we generally get along. However, about halfway through dinner, someone will give their opinion on a polarizing topic such as politics or economics and words will start to fly like a verbal food fight, and the differences. The instigator on most occasions? My maternal grandfather. Whenever he feels strongly about a topic, he will make sure people know where he stands on the issue. He is, without a trace of doubt, the most passionate person I know. If he’s interested in a topic,

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