As we get ready to celebrate this Thanksgiving with family and friends, I just want to take a minute or two to say how blessed and thankful I am for allowing me ninety trips around the sun to enjoy the holiday season. Please bear with me while I acknowledge the most important people and happenings that mean so very much to me.

I am thankful to have had a special angel, Flo, bring Carole into my life. For the past 16 plus years she showed me that after you grieve, you can live and love again. I love you with all my heart and soul honey. Thank you for being you!

I am thankful to have a fantastic son, Warren, who has been through so much medically throughout his life. His fight to keep on truckin’ is inspirational. He is a great father and husband who makes me very proud. I love him with all my heart.

I am thankful for the past forty two years to have had a second family with Paul Allen Cianci and his family and all they have meant to me.  All I can say is “Amo la mia famiglia”. Thank you Pops! 

I am blessed that after 37 years of being associated with the adult industry through NightMoves and AAN, it continues to give me great joy in many ways. Most important, it has allowed me to meet some fantastic people I can call dear friends. 

I am very thankful that a dream of mine for over 55 years became reality when I became a published author in 2015. It helped ignite the writing bug again.

I am extremely thankful I was spared and given another chance to live life to the fullest after getting a scary visit from the Widow Maker on December 3, 2014 and in good health. 

I am eternally thankful that, despite all it’s many problems, that I live in the greatest country in the world and wake up to the sun every morning..

Last, but far from least, I am very thankful and blessed for all the support, love and friendship you all have given me over the years with my daily features, reviews, articles and writings. I can never thank you enough for what it means to me to bring some sunshine your way each day with my words.

There’s a lot more, but for now that is what I am most thankful for as we celebrate another Thanksgiving at a time when giving thanks means more than ever. May you all be as blessed as I have been. Please have and enjoy a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Art Koch, National Features & DVD Editor, NightMoves Magazine and AAN