Last year, like most of us, I took Thanksgiving off.
As a professional Thanksgiving evangelist, skipping the holiday had implications beyond my personal life. You might think that for someone who’s written recipes for Thanksgiving eight years running, missing a year running on the Wheel of Content would be a blessing, a welcome respite. But no: to think that would be to assume I have a healthy work-life balance, where my sense of self and purpose isn’t directly correlated to how useful I can be to others, and in fact I missed it terribly.
