Friday, August 14, 2009 OK, The Best Aunt in the World just took the cousins bowling (an excellent choice since it is raining.) and I finally have a moment to myself. We went to the fair yesterday. It was not a fair day.  It was raining when we walked the kids over to swimming lessons [...]

name address  Brooklyn, NEW YORK yada yada yada Married/partnered/children/pets YES Years you participated in the Bigfork Summer Playhouse: 1990 Names of productions and roles performed (if you remember). Shy in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Anytime Annie in 42nd Street, the youngest daughter, in the red and white dress while everyone else wore pastels, [...]

My Kid and her Girl Cousin have just run in the front door with their dolls; “They’re spraying a house and the lawn of the church.  We had to run all the way to get away from the bad smell!  We held our breath!”  They are perhaps a little too aware of environmental toxins.    [...]

I was literally plugging in my laptop so I can check my e-mail from a public wi-fi site (because my parents only have dial-up) when my cell phone rang.  It was Kendall asking if I’ve sent out the e-mail blast asking for donations for the troupe. Yikes I haven’t.  GUILT.  I’m a bad friend.  I [...]

I was just checking my e-mail before I went back to the room from the lovely hotel lobby with beverages and wi-fi and there is an e-mail that informs me that the Bigfork Summer Playhouse reunion is only days away.  I haven’t really thought about that yet.  I bought a ticket.  But, I haven’t thought [...]

Saturday 8/8/09   Last Day Up and awake and watching Discovery Network Shark Week.  The clock is ticking.  Today is our last day together in Seattle.  Tomorrow The Husband returns to work in New York City and My Kid and I continue on to two weeks with My Parents in Montana.  Last year the husband [...]

  I thought we would spend some time at the Pacific Science Center with My Kid.  But, that didn’t happen.  We enjoyed hanging out in the hotel room as a family until it was time for The Husband to go have lunch with a former work colleague.  My Kid and I went swimming in the [...]

Friday 8/7/09   We’re moving slowly today.  I was awake at 7:30 am but those people I travel with weren’t.  I ended up reading for a while (The Husband’s copy of The Fall of the House of Bush.)  My book is Suzanna Clarke’s A House in Fez about restoring a house in Morocco but I [...]

  Thursday 8/6/09   We had breakfast at Voula’s on Northlake Way–yum–with an old theatre friend who is planning her big move to NYC this fall–Yeah!  I’m looking forward to having this friend in New York.  We’re the same age.  We’re both from Montana.  We’re both actresses.  We both have one daughter (but her’s is [...]

  Wednesday 8/5/09   After a late start we got on the road for a day trip to Deception Pass State Park.  We chose a northern destination because we had to drop off The Mother-In-Law’s surger at the old school sewing machine repair shop at 200th and Aurora.  There were some beautiful old singer treadle [...]