T-day

T-day dinner was tasty, and the guests were a crazy combination that would make a great cast for a short story or play. The diversity could have made the result a comedy or a tragedy. We had our hosts Karen and Howard and their 2 adult sons; Karen's cousin & husband; cousin's elderly father and his medical aide, a soft-spoken woman from Ghana; Howard's brother's ex and her openly gay daughter (the brother himself was spending the day with Mom); and us. Somehow we managed to keep the conversation away from religion, politics, or sports, and covered instead such wide-ranging topics as racehorse breeding, cooking in bulk, one of the boys' road trip to Denver, advertising, and theater.