Happy Thanksgiving

It's Thanksgiving and I won't be posting. I'm off giving thanks for family, turkey and fall colours.
But it occurs to me that a neighbour's new book was written partly to give thanks, so it's an appropriate post to leave you with on this sunny, glorious Thanksgiving weekend.

When My World Was Very Small: A Memoir of Family, Food, Cancer and My Couch by Ruth Rakoff is about many things. One of them is the incredible depth of generosity and caring in our tight-knit, downtown community.

I know that some people marvel that I'm raising my children "right downtown," as though The Annex and Seaton Village is a dangerous concrete jungle.
Read the book and then get back to me.

I, too, have been the recipient of the incredible generosity that is alive and well in our area and Ruth and I were on each other's "food brigades."

As the title suggests, food is one of the topics in the memoir, which makes it a doubly appropriate read on this weekend that's also about turkey and pumpkin pie.

Yes -- plenty to be thankful for.

Happy reading and happy dining!
Vanessa