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Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves
We love our New Leaf men, but we also love it when it’s just the girls. Here are some photos from last weekend’s load-in for Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, where (after the boys had to scoot – they were there in the morning), the ladies stayed around to kick some butt and take some names. At one point we looked up, noticed it was just us girls in the house, and decided we needed some...
PlayDates, Part 1
About a year ago, a handful of New Leafers gathered at Ranalli’s (now closed, more’s the pity) after a performance of The Permanent Way. It was a quiet, snowy night, and as the dining room emptied out, our conversation became thoughtful. Personal. Significant. We talked about fear. As we doodled in crayon on the white paper tablecloth, one by one we enumerated our fears. Fears...
Sigh… Relief.
This morning my cell phone rang and my stomach dropped the way it has learned to do in the past month when I see a number I recognize as belonging to the Park District. We’ve been further embroiled in the contract battle this week – remember when we were so jubilant that we were going home? I think we can file that under chickens that hadn’t quite hatched. On Monday, those eggs...
Old Photos
Again and again I am amazed at the amount of information that can be stored in your brain – a huge, complex cataloging and operating system that we aren’t close to fully understanding. At times the strangest things jog a memory out that I’m surprised is still in there. Usually it’s something really mundane that I saw or heard 20 years ago, and for some reason it sifted back...
