I’m grateful for the America I directly experience every day: my friends and family, and the community I live in where we actually have a lot in common if we dig past the surface. I get to live in the best country on Earth and I am so lucky. Thank you Free Press, you are the media I was wishing for in 2020. Keep up the great work.
I am so glad I found the FP, you and Bari nailed it and Friday morning with Nellie is the best!! I am thankful I live in this country with my husband and son and have many freedoms others around the world are not able to enjoy.
I'm thankful for this kind of journalism and The Free Press. You were the first light I found amidst all this trendy hate that keeps trying to consume us from within. And in this place, I found that I wasn't the only one looking for brains, but also for hope. After finding you, everything started to shine again: I have learned a lot thanks to you.
Every morning I take the dog for a walk, usually before the sun rises, and I make a point of being consciously grateful for my health and that I have the privilege of walking down the street on my own two legs, seeing the world through my own two eyes, and breathing the air with my own two lungs. I am very fortunate and thankful.
My wife and I have a large amount of blessings to be thankful for but TFP is one of them. The other is you. We are retired and if was not for TGIF we probably would not get up on Fridays.
Grateful to you Nellie for how often this column makes me laugh and how much I look forward to it every Friday. I have taken to listening to it via Substack app when I walk the dog.
I am thankful for my new neighbors, who live on the other side of our unpaved county road. They invited us to Thanksgiving dinner with a portion of their large family. There I got to see the matriarch holding a sleeping two-week-old-great-granddaughter in her arms. And smiling. And I smiled too. BTW the food was amazing.
I’m thankful for all the plenty in my life. 5 kids and 8 grandkids. All doing well. I’m also thankful for TFP that brought me to Substack. It opened me to a whole new world of journalism and like minded people. The commentary is as rich as the writing. God bless you all and God bless America.
I'm thankful for My God and the wife he made just for me. 55 years and the secret to a long marriage, marry the right woman. I'm thankful for all fur of my grandchildren. All from small towns so I get to travel to all those small Nebraska "cities" we heard much about while living in the city.They are all athletes.
And, in all seriousness, I'm thankful for the east and west coast. We can see what bad political ideological policies are on how they will destroy this country and will try and migrate our way. How bad it is, and how to avoid it.
I'm also very grateful for my dogs (new style of children). We swore 10 year ago when the last pet died, no more. We would travel because we were retired. Then my wife said look what popped up on computer. A female Golden Doodle. OK one is fine. But then came another opportunity. A male Bernie Doodle that the owner couldn't keep becasue she had cancer and they were afraid it would brake her bones because they would be easily broken, because of the drugs she took to fight cancer, by such a big dog. So now we have two. Doodles are great dogs. They love to meet people and are well manner. Many business around here allow them inside the store. I will be even more thankful if they out live me.
My gratitude list is as long as the TSA line at the airport today and includes my big, beautiful, blended family including my 84-year old mom’s sweet new BF; my health and relative sanity; my Portland OR community that gets it that the pendulum has swung too far and we must recalibrate our beautiful city into one that is back in the land of sane; my Fabulous Female Founders subscribers, clients, colleagues, and collaborators; my tennis community: slice it up, ladies!; every single person who has not bought into the anti-Semitic lies and insanity dominating mainstream and social media; the Free Press: thanks for your bravery and please be safe, Bari and Nellie; the clean air we breathe and water we drink and this big sprawling fascinating country and all its complexities and opportunities; Dave Barry, for all the laughs, which fit perfectly with my theme this year: Lighten Up. Thanks and blessings to all.
Reading this, I’m am thankful for you for trying to bring sanity to Portland. I don’t live there but it’s a city near and dear to my heart. We were able to turn San Francisco around through hard work and determination, so I know it’s possible.
I'm thankful for everything in my life, and work every day to remember it. In the free press context, I'm thankful for a news organization that seems to seek the angle that outs all attempts at authoritarian evil abroad and at home. Thank you!
I married the kindest person I know, and that makes life so sweet.
I’m grateful for the America I directly experience every day: my friends and family, and the community I live in where we actually have a lot in common if we dig past the surface. I get to live in the best country on Earth and I am so lucky. Thank you Free Press, you are the media I was wishing for in 2020. Keep up the great work.
I’m thankful for The Free Press. Real people reporting and commenting on things important to real people.
I am so glad I found the FP, you and Bari nailed it and Friday morning with Nellie is the best!! I am thankful I live in this country with my husband and son and have many freedoms others around the world are not able to enjoy.
I'm thankful for this kind of journalism and The Free Press. You were the first light I found amidst all this trendy hate that keeps trying to consume us from within. And in this place, I found that I wasn't the only one looking for brains, but also for hope. After finding you, everything started to shine again: I have learned a lot thanks to you.
Every morning I take the dog for a walk, usually before the sun rises, and I make a point of being consciously grateful for my health and that I have the privilege of walking down the street on my own two legs, seeing the world through my own two eyes, and breathing the air with my own two lungs. I am very fortunate and thankful.
My wife and I have a large amount of blessings to be thankful for but TFP is one of them. The other is you. We are retired and if was not for TGIF we probably would not get up on Fridays.
The New Orleans Secular Humanist Association has a Thanksgiving sermon written by Robert Ingersoll here :
https://nosha.info/a-thanksgiving-sermon-by-robert-ingersoll/
Every. single. word.
grateful for honest news like The Free Press, my non woke gf, and my friends and fellow
volunteers at The CLARITy Coalition, they reassure me that there are people
all over the world in our work together fighting for light against the insanity of terrorism and socialism
Grateful to you Nellie for how often this column makes me laugh and how much I look forward to it every Friday. I have taken to listening to it via Substack app when I walk the dog.
I am thankful for my new neighbors, who live on the other side of our unpaved county road. They invited us to Thanksgiving dinner with a portion of their large family. There I got to see the matriarch holding a sleeping two-week-old-great-granddaughter in her arms. And smiling. And I smiled too. BTW the food was amazing.
Lots to be grateful for, but TFP is pretty near the top of the list, so, Thank you.
I’m thankful for all the plenty in my life. 5 kids and 8 grandkids. All doing well. I’m also thankful for TFP that brought me to Substack. It opened me to a whole new world of journalism and like minded people. The commentary is as rich as the writing. God bless you all and God bless America.
I'm thankful for My God and the wife he made just for me. 55 years and the secret to a long marriage, marry the right woman. I'm thankful for all fur of my grandchildren. All from small towns so I get to travel to all those small Nebraska "cities" we heard much about while living in the city.They are all athletes.
And, in all seriousness, I'm thankful for the east and west coast. We can see what bad political ideological policies are on how they will destroy this country and will try and migrate our way. How bad it is, and how to avoid it.
I'm also very grateful for my dogs (new style of children). We swore 10 year ago when the last pet died, no more. We would travel because we were retired. Then my wife said look what popped up on computer. A female Golden Doodle. OK one is fine. But then came another opportunity. A male Bernie Doodle that the owner couldn't keep becasue she had cancer and they were afraid it would brake her bones because they would be easily broken, because of the drugs she took to fight cancer, by such a big dog. So now we have two. Doodles are great dogs. They love to meet people and are well manner. Many business around here allow them inside the store. I will be even more thankful if they out live me.
My gratitude list is as long as the TSA line at the airport today and includes my big, beautiful, blended family including my 84-year old mom’s sweet new BF; my health and relative sanity; my Portland OR community that gets it that the pendulum has swung too far and we must recalibrate our beautiful city into one that is back in the land of sane; my Fabulous Female Founders subscribers, clients, colleagues, and collaborators; my tennis community: slice it up, ladies!; every single person who has not bought into the anti-Semitic lies and insanity dominating mainstream and social media; the Free Press: thanks for your bravery and please be safe, Bari and Nellie; the clean air we breathe and water we drink and this big sprawling fascinating country and all its complexities and opportunities; Dave Barry, for all the laughs, which fit perfectly with my theme this year: Lighten Up. Thanks and blessings to all.
Also, Nellie, I was meeting the other day with Jessie Burke, who says y’all are longtime friends. We both agree that TFP gives us hope.
Reading this, I’m am thankful for you for trying to bring sanity to Portland. I don’t live there but it’s a city near and dear to my heart. We were able to turn San Francisco around through hard work and determination, so I know it’s possible.
I'm thankful for everything in my life, and work every day to remember it. In the free press context, I'm thankful for a news organization that seems to seek the angle that outs all attempts at authoritarian evil abroad and at home. Thank you!