For These Things I Give Thanks

Since this is what you do on Thanksgiving, this is what I’ll do.

I am thankful for:

• The Missus, my ever-loving bride who has stuck with me through thick-headedness and thin pickings for lo these 30 years

• Homemade chocolate chip cookies, the making of which is the only thing I remember from college

• My students at BU, who are an endless source of amusement, bemusement, and enlightenment

• The Friends of Boston’s Homeless, whose Long Island Shelter has provided essential services for over two decades

• The iPod Nano, which delivers music on my way to school and news on my way home

• The Missus

• Thelonious Monk, who played the way I’ve always wanted to write