Tag: thanksgiving

Second Harvest Food Bank is seeking volunteers to help with Tom's Turkey Drive. The organization wants to provide 11,000 meals for hungry families in need this Thanksgiving.

I found myself standing in a line outside a department store at 4:30 a.m. on Black Friday.

(RNS) One holiday calls us to stop everything and appreciate; another demands that we stop everything and agitate.

(RNS) Thanksgiving is a day to celebrate food with gusto.

If you celebrate Thanksgiving, we'd like to know what inspires you to do so.

I’ve always been a religious devotee of Black Friday. Last year, I got up with my sisters and mother-in-law in the middle of the night while the tryptophan and pie residue still flowed in my veins, drove to Starbucks for a carafe of overpriced Americana tradition in a red paper cup and headed to a Seattle mega-mall to raise the balance on my credit card in the name of holiday cheer and goodwill.

While some stores are offering a jumpstart on holiday sales by opening up on Thanksgiving Day, others are vowing to keep their doors shut.