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Play Selection
One of the things I haven't talked about much here was being asked to be on a play selection committee last fall. It was such a wonderful experience! It was something I’d been wanting to do for years and years - probably since I started in theatre. There were so many times I thought, “Why in EARTH are they doing that show?” It made me want to be ( Read more... ) -
Dipping a toe in
So much is going on right now in my life. I feel like I am caught in the middle of a whirlwind - or maybe, the first strong breezes of a whirlwind. I’ve thought about coming back and writing in here more than once. I’ve also thought about scrapping this whole thing and closing up my journal. I’m not sure what I want to do right now. I can see ( Read more... ) -
Marion and I
This weekend Michael and I went up to Ontario to visit his Aunt Marion. I thought of you, my Canadian friends, and if there had been more time I would have liked to have met up with a couple of you, but it was not to be. It was a fast 72 hour trip, but a good one ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes, I think I was born into the wrong culture.
I am from a West Michigan Conservative Christian American Dutch family. What does this mean? Well, when it comes to food (which is what this post is about) not much. In the WMCCAD tradition, most main dishes are made with creamed Campbell’s soup (usually mushroom, with occasional additions of cream of chicken and cream of celery.) If it is a ( Read more... ) -
A meme from the incredible ilipodscrill
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The Letter L
vaneramos gave me the letter L. I am to pick ten things that start with L and write comments about why I like them. I’m not a big one for memes, but this one seemed fun. Anyone who comments to this will be given a letter of their own to write about.
Lovely Letter LLemons - I love to cook. It comes from my father who was also a great cook. Dad never ( Read more... ) -
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Michael and I were standing in line for Sunday morning breakfast when I saw him. He was working in the open kitchen, cracking eggs onto a griddle with one hand and shaking a skillet of black beans in the other. The line for seating in the vegetarian restaurant snaked almost out the door, so I had plenty of time to watch him as it inched along. ( Read more... ) -
Theatre Musings
Tonight is dress rehearsal. Hopefully there will be some people there to see the show. Most of the theatres around here charge $5 or less for people who want to come in the night before the show opens. It’s a good deal - you get to see the show, usually pretty close to perfect, before everyone else and for a whole lot less money. Of course, it ( Read more... ) -
Love of Las Vegas and other things
I just got back from vacationing in one of my favorite cities - Las Vegas. The trip ended too soon, I could have stayed for another week. It isn’t about the gambling for me. I love the weather, the friendliness of the people and the unending things to do. I don’t live that terribly far from Chicago, but for big cities - give me Las Vegas every ( Read more... ) -
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I was stopped at a traffic light this morning, my mind wandering and thinking about the day ahead, when my gaze was caught by a young man. He was tall, rather thin and disheveled in the way that makes me think “homeless.” His long hair was ragged and unkempt as was the rather Cro-Magnon reddish beard that grew from his chin. His clothes weren’t ( Read more... )