A weekend after my niece came down to visit, I got a call from Andrea, Charles's uncle's wife (I don't think C ever thought of her as his 'aunt'). Charles's cousin Tony had passed away. A little background on the players here. Charles's mother Anna was the second of two sisters (Grace being the older) …
Month: November 2024
Cinderella, the Baker’s Wife
The mashup you didn't know you needed. No, I saw two community theater productions, one last weekend, one this weekend. Last Sunday, I saw Blue Hill Troupe's fall show, Rodgers+Hammerstein's Cinderella, which, as my buddy Natan wrote in his excellent program essay, is different from the version that's called Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella. What a …
We Miss You
Every time I visit my nieces or spend time with Patti and Peter upstate, or have dinner with Tessa, I'm reminded of how many quality people, who I love dearly, are in my life because of Charles. By the time I'd met Charles, he was an IT office drone just like me, but he'd spent …