Archive for October, 2015
Top Fun at the Big Top: Show Review by Jo Mispel
October 29th, 2015
Taking early leave of a Halloween gathering, my Luke Skywalker five year old son, baby sister and I headed excitedly to our first Big Apple Circus. With distant memories of my own childhood, I was looking forward to my son experiencing the immediacy of a classic circus show, but without ...
The death of “An” and other “tragedies” of a once literary society by Pamela Francis
October 28th, 2015
A former sign captain at our neighborhood Home Depot once told me that if anyone in the store asked him to jump on a forklift and maneuver a 2-ton pallet of sod grass, or pick up a jigsaw and make an intricate cut into a 3"-thick piece of plywood, he'd ...
Mom Theatre Blogger: Clever Little Lies: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
October 24th, 2015
After a grueling game of tennis between father and son, Billy weepily confesses to his elderly dad, Bill Sr., that he is having an affair with Jasmine, a 23 year old trainer at his gym, and that he yearns to whisk her off to Hawaii and have some wicked sex ...
A Magical Night by Robin Gorman Newman
October 23rd, 2015
My son has always enjoyed magic, so when we learned of A Taste of Magic, through its dynamic and talented director Kent Axell, we jumped at the opportunity. Kent is a mentalist and magician, with a background in theater and the arts, and a deep interest in philosophy and the sciences. ...
The Upside of Isolation by Pamela Francis
October 21st, 2015
This month marks the third year since I purchased the four tickets that launched my household up out of our beloved desert community in California and into the Southeast. Two of us landed in Georgia into the lap of extended family, and two of us flew into South Carolina to ...
Aunt Mary Stewart by Sharon O’Donnell
October 17th, 2015
My Aunt Mary Stewart died last week at the grand age of 100 years old. She was the epitome of the Southern lady, full of goodness, hospitality, faith, and words of wisdom. Back in March, our whole family got together to celebrate her 100th birthday, and this photo was taken ...
Guest Blog: What It’s Really Like to Have Twins at 50 by Tami Green
October 16th, 2015
My absolutely, positively, adorable, twin girls are feeding me baby carrots. They are seriously cute, and they are my best little friends, but it was hard as hell to have them at my age. They are not my only children. Nor are they the only babies I had “later in life.” ...
Mom Theatre Blogger: The Inn at Lake Devine: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
October 15th, 2015
[caption id="attachment_22015" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo credit: Maeghan Donohue[/caption] Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions (Jake Lipman, producing artistic director) is presenting the world premiere adaptation of the popular novel, The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman. And, if you're a fan of the book, you will be heartened to know this ...
I Can Orchestrate My Own Magical Divine Validation Daily, but… by Pamela Francis
October 14th, 2015
The Black Friday of dentistry has arrived -- yes, Halloween, and signs of spiders, black cats with arched backs, and witches on broomsticks have proliferated around our town. It's all in good fun and no amount of warnings about cavities, tainted candy and razor blades in apples (hey, I grew ...
Blueberry Muffins by Dana Spincola
October 8th, 2015
I already begin to wonder what memories of childhood my little guy will talk about in his future. What moments or events will he hold as special or will he feel attached to when he comes home as an adult to visit the “house he grew up in?” I am not ...
