Happy Thanksgiving!

I am thankful for many things, of course--God, family, friends--you know, the requisites. But I thought that I would dedicate today's post to you--my legions of frogg files readers! Because I certainly am thankful for you. Many's the time I thought about quitting this silly blog, and then someone would say they like reading, or that something I wrote made them think, or laugh, and I would say to myself, "Ok. If one person is still getting something out of it, then I'll keep it up just a little longer."

And here it is, more than a year later since I started! Who would've thought.

Many thanks to Steve for getting me started with the blogging and for all the fun stuff we've done over the years; to Mark for the same thing (except for the idea to start blogging!); to Aunt B for being one of my biggest fans (hey I still have that "creativity" stone you bought me at Harper's Ferry years ago!); to my cousin the noble lady, who is a beautiful, talented girl and a good writer and singer; to beccaline for her friendship and all the laughs; to Single Proposition who is not unaware of my shortcomings as a friend, and yet is friends with me anyway; to andi for encouraging and praying me through a rough time this year; to daily pepper for being a cool writing buddy and a good friend; to beautiphil for being my IWT partner in crime; to Bees for the offer to spend his future lottery winnings on a private jet so he can fly out to see me, or bring me back to NZ for a visit; to expectmuch who said some very nice things about me on his blog once, and who also stops me from being as hard on myself as I try to be; porter for the occasional late-night glass of bourbon and the oscar wilde nightingale story; to skwerlman7 and thelittlekappa who have always been supportive and encouraging, of both me as a person, and also my writing.

If you did not see your name in the above list, you should comment more often...or just let me know that you read the next time we talk! Whatever the case, don't be sad. I am thankful for you too.

I will raise a glass of Martinelli's sparkling cranberry juice to you, my readers, today. Thank you, and remember me as you eat your pumpkin pie! Also mincemeat.

PS After all that, I won't be writing for you for the next few days...off to the San Francisco Bay Area, where I am lucky enough to have a second family who all but adopted me, and who is having their Thanksgiving on Saturday! So I get two Thanksgivings this year! Yay!

PPS and for those of little faith among you, who doubted my veracity on a previous posting, I give you...the dinosaur eating the giant clock! I bet he would rather have turkey though. Feel sorry for him as you gobble yours down.