Drama
My parents live in Plano, Texas, and each summer my mother, my daughter and I go to the community theater to see a play. We began when Sarah was in elementary school with selections like Cinderella. More recently, we enjoyed Footloose. During the intermission, my mother confessed to my daughter that she always thought Kevin Bacon had a great butt. The tickets were dirt cheap, but the look on my daughter’s face was priceless! Talk about the family drama when we returned to my parents house, and my daughter repeated what Grandma said to her Grandpa and brother. This past year, we saw Dilemmas with Dinner, a play I later discovered is popular around the country with local theater. Set in the 1980s, the cast went all out with shoulder pads, lycra, big...
Dress Code
What do you think about dress codes? Do they make sense in school, restaurants, or places of business? Why or why not? Once upon a time, there was a twenty-something young woman who lived in a land ruled by a former actor and full of people dressed in power suits, sporting big hair, and hefting filofaxes. She landed a job at a large insurance company, and on her first day, was handing a large stack of forms to sign. Some allowed the former actor and his agencies to take money from her paycheck to pay for exciting projects named after George Lucas movies. Others warned her against telling the competition any deep dark insurance secrets. At the bottom of the stack was a dress code form which she signed after looking at her watch, then the title of the form,...
Bullies
If my heart belongs to Top Chef, my mind belongs to Mad Men. An intelligent, contemplative, multi-layered cast of characters inhabit the world of early ’60s advertising, and while much has changed in the work place, some things remain the same. Like adult bullies. I’ve grown to love Joanie, I truly have, and her marriage exposes all of the flaws and gender bias of the Eisenhower era. She may sport the gloss of Jackie Kennedy, but she’s as much a post-war woman as Betty Draper. In the first season, she was the woman I loved to hate. Peggy was so me in my first years in the corporate world (and it doesn’t help that my mom’s name is Peggy). Eager to please, full of trust, Peggy and I were ripe for women like Joan, rapacious and...
Letters
The last two nablopomo prompts ask a blogger to write 2 “letters” to themselves, one an apology for an event or decision in the past, one describing what’s going on now that the writer doesn’t want to forget. I thought about the first letter much of yesterday. While I can come up with a few decisions I’ve made in the past that I regret, most of them occurred before I had my children, and if I made a different decision, the children I have might be different or not exist at all! Overall, I am happy with where I am at in my life, and the things I would change are either entirely up to me – exercise and lack thereof at the top of the list – or I can’t change no matter how much I want to – leaving New Jersey...
Trinity
Today’s first prompt (I have to catch up): If you could take over the life of any character from a book or film and be them for a week, who would you choose? Trinity from The Matrix. Kickass pleather and vicious hacker skills. Why WOULDN’T I want to be Trinity? (My first thought was Nancy Botwin because it would just be so much fun to be Nancy, but the prompt says book or film, not TV. Sorry Nance!)
Procrastination
I’m participating in National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) in February. This month’s theme is character. Today’s prompt: Tell us seven things you do when you procrastinate. In order of preference: 1. Twitter 2. WordPress 3. Gmail 4. Punk Rock Kitchen 5. Etsy / Ravelry (depends on my bank balance) 6. Peapod (best website ever for working [single] parents) 7. Stumbleupon Here’s a visual: (Yes, I should’ve been grading when I made that rather poor image.) I don’t remember how I procrastinated before the internet. Probably having actual conversations with people face to...
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