OPINION | FRONT BURNER: This year's feast has turkey cutlets, personal pies

Without a doubt, this Thanksgiving will be different.

In the early years of our marriage, my husband and I would spend Thanksgiving Day driving and eating and driving and eating. Neither of us wanted to miss our family's traditional meal, yet we didn't want to spend the holiday apart. So we would feast twice. It was delicious but exhausting.

The past few years we've gone our separate ways on Turkey Day with him going to his parents and me to mine.

But because of the pandemic, we are re-evaluating our plan. I would love, more than anything, to spend the day cooking with my mom and watching football with my dad and sit down around a crowded table with my brother and sister-in-law, my nieces and nephews and their significant others, but it's simply too risky.

So