Patti was one of Charles's two best friends - they met each other working at restaurants together, and were roommates for years. He catered her first wedding - maybe even her second one - and in retaliation, we'd made her be major-domo and point person for our wedding. Anyway, she and her husband Peter are …

Continue reading August Road Trip: Rhinebeck

Sunday, Aug. 25 - I had another not-quite-two-hour drive in front of me. I will say that this drive, and the next one on Monday, was lovely. That part of the country is so beautiful, and particularly when you get to the Catskills, you find that Google Maps is routing you across covered bridges and …

Continue reading August Road Trip: Roscoe

So... two weeks after I got home from England, I set out again on another trip. The impetus was that my older niece was bringing her family from Minnesota to visit her parents in the Catskills, so I would go over/up there to see everyone. But heck, if I'm going to have a car and …

Continue reading August Road Trip: Rainbow Mountain

Ten years ago today, after an eighteen-year engagement, a year of planning, and a pretty awesome party the night before, Charles and I got married. It was a small wedding at an Italian restaurant, with the teensy ceremony sandwiched in between the appetizers and the main course. https://youtu.be/FSIYB9C0QdU I'll do some pondering later about what …

Continue reading Ten years

The two weeks after I got back from England were 'normal' - no real events, catching up at home and at work. As with last year, unfortunately, a lot of our Savoynet cast came down with COVID - mostly after the show, although it turned out that that was what had done in one of …

Continue reading Ketchup

I had plenty of time Sunday morning to get up, drink coffee, get my personal act together, go get breakfast and then pack. So this I did. I hadn't tried the hotel breakfast the day before - it was a serve-yourself continental breakfast and I had a bran muffin and a yogurt. It was pretty …

Continue reading England Trip, Day 16 (Sun. Aug 11): Homeward Bound

This day was total fun, as I got to plug into Susanna's awesome cruise directing. We were starting with an 11:00 tea at Fortnum & Mason, so I ended up skipping breakfast, just leisurely got my act together in the room. My room was pretty awesome, by the way, and the coffee machine (with little …

Continue reading England Trip, Day 15 (Sat. Aug 10): Winning at Touristing

Usually, I like to put in a buffer day after the show before we go home, but that wasn't possible this time. But I wasn't pushed for time, although I did have a scheduled train ticket. I could (and did) leisurely get up, get cleaned up, go down for breakfast, come back up and pack. …

Continue reading England trip, day 14 (Fri Aug 9, back to London)

Wed: Last day in the rehearsal room. My sinuses are still miserable (I think it's mold and/or pollen. I had the same problem last year). I have a whole bunch of disposable daily contact lenses left from the last time I bought them, and they're kinda old, so 'expired', but I'd tried them on a …

Continue reading England Trip, Day 12 and 13 (Wed/Thurs Aug 7,8)

Things were getting easier by the start of this second week - I could throw away cabaret music because it was over, I'd paid various people for various incidentals (rehearsal catering, the show DVD) so I didn't have to think about that any more, and laundry has been did for the last time. (I'll get …

Continue reading England Trip, Day 10,11 (Mon/Tues Aug 5/6)