Thanksgiving in Turkey Glen
Not Every Family Holiday is a Norman Rockwell Painting
6 min readNov 14, 2019
There’s an American flag trapped in the gutters at my parents’ house. The pole that supports it doesn’t extend far enough from the porch pillars to allow it to fly completely free. It was poorly positioned from the start. It’s been soiled by the collecting debris, soaked by the rain, frozen by the snow; still they’re proud of…