This year would be the first Thanksgiving I’d be spending with my honey, and the first in my new home “village” of Oysterville, WA (pop. 14). It would also be the first year I’d be spending it away from my family and California friends in decades. I wanted to — needed to — surround myself with the new family and friends who have wrapped me in their warm circle. And while we have had our crosses to bear, we are also blessed with good fortune, and wanted to share our bounty wit