I woke up early this morning and made a big breakfast for everyone here in the actors' house. Yes, I'm just that amazing.

This morning while cooking I contemplated past Thanksgivings, as I'm prone to do with any yearly occassion, and realized something specific about this holiday. See, as a travelling actor, I haven't been in the same place for any two Thanksgivings since I started this line of work. It's never been a holiday I'm motivated to try to get home for - Christmas, yes, but not Thanksgiving. The last ten years...

In 1995, I spent Thanksgiving at home with the family in Kansas.
1996, California, working at TGAM, while running "A Christmas Carol"
1997... Where was I? On tour. I think we were in Georgia.
1998, Louisville, Kentucky while running "It's A Wonderful Life"
1999, Champaign Illinois while running "Here's Love"
2000, Oceano, California (again) while running "A Christmas Carol"
2001, Richmond VA, on tour with another "A Christmas Carol"
2002, New Haven CT, on tour, yet another different "A Christmas Carol"
2003, Lancaster PA, running a Christmas revue
Today... Grand Junction, CO... running "Beauty and the Beast." Our musical director is having many of us over for the big dinner and etcetera. Every year, some great people whereever I'm working come together and form an ersatz family for this day. Amongst other thing, I'm thankful I've been able to share this day with all those people in the past ten years. I miss my family, but I know they have each other, and I'm lucky to be doing what I'm doing.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Funniest thing I've heard today, on several levels: "In Germany, do they call Thanksgiving 'Danketag'?"