Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Hope your day is spent with friends and loved ones, and good food and beer of course. Thanksgiving is a time to get a little cheesy and not just reflect on how thankful you are for the meal you’ll be eating today, but also for anything else in your life. Here are a few things I’m thankful for.

1. My beautiful wife who understands me like no one else.
2. Family all over the country who I wish I could see more often.
3. A set of friends in Seattle who make me feel like this is home.
4. Friends in Chicago who I miss constantly. Wish I could make it back more often.
5. Parents that raised me well.
6. The fact that Jeanne and I are both lucky enough to have great jobs that we both enjoy.
7. Our cat, Etta.
8. Pigs. Bacon + sausage + ham = a magical creature.
9. The opportunity to write about beer in an amazing beer scene in Seattle that just continues to get better.
10. Our adopted home in the PNW. I love this part of the country.