Letter: Be safe this holiday season

One Thanksgiving, I helped with the cooking by shoving potato peels and flour down the garbage disposal all at once. It exploded all over the kitchen, the people, the food. I was old enough to know better, and that minor disaster became part of our family’s holiday lore. Another Thanksgiving I spent in the hospital after surgery; I wanted nothing except my parents at my bedside (they were).One Christmas Day almost 20 years ago, my husband and I got the call that his aunt had died in one ho