Still on EST, we both woke up at 300, but fell back asleep. By the time it was 600, I’d figured out what to do. Went down to the Starbucks in the casino to fetch coffee. By the time I'd gotten back, Dad was dressed and raring to go with the day. I was like, …
West Coast Road Trip, Day 1: RDU/DFW/LAS
After a nice week celebrating both Dad's and Sam's birthdays, and doing some last-minute planning, Monday morning, Dad and I got up, got cleaned up and ready, and Sam drove us to the airport. Hugs and goodbyes, and Dad forgot his cane in Sam's car. (Dad doesn't need a cane, precisely, but he finds it …
Convivial Merriment
Currently at my dad's place down in Durham NC to celebrate both his birthday (90!) and my brother's. Sam's is a week after Dad's, but we'll miss the actual date because Dad and I will have flown off to Vegas by then. So we're taking him out this weekend before we leave. I'd kinda hoped …
Look to the Western Sky
Quite a week last week, I must say. Short week because of Thanksgiving. I was only working Monday and Tuesday, although there was a meeting important enough on Wednesday that I attended it (remotely, as we all did). Monday I worked from home, but Tuesday I went to the office for a variety of reasons. …
Tarry a While
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) …
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 …
Classics
It sometimes feels like my performing career has been (a) discovering great works of music or theater in my formative years and then (b) revisiting them, often in a directorial position, as an adult. When I was a band director, I frequently took advantage and programmed pieces I remembered from high school or band camp …
Give Three Cheers and One Cheer More
So... good news! Great news! Savoynet is doing a fun thing at the G&S festival next summer - we're doing HMS Pinafore as our mainstage production, and The Zoo as a fringe production. I'd applied to music-direct Pinafore, but not Zoo (two separate directing teams). And I found out this weekend I got it! So …
Very normal
October's nice so far. I've deliberately had not much on the calendar, and am actually getting some stuff done (although there's always more that I beat myself up about.) I somehow got the impulse to start doing this particular Jane Fonda exercise video again. I've been doing it for decades, it's not hard at all …
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