Monthly Archives: March 2012

Obviously, I’m Just One of Those Famous Minute-born Suckers.

My two oldest are ferociously eyes deep in The Hunger Games–one is reading the paperback version and one is reading the Kobo version. I promised I’d take them to see the movie once they have both finished. This is how I get  my daughter to read. I bribe her. I am…

Stage Mom. Indeed.

Many of you already know about Emily and the stage. I have written through her performances in The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, Mamma Mia, Grease, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hairspray, The Wizard of Oz (again), Glee. You already know that her sister thinks that she’s famous. Isabella:…

On Footloose and Footloose 2: Electric Boogaloo

My sister and I were raised by movies. The movies that made dancing dirty, made the artsy, offbeat boys sexy, made the foreign exchange students hilarious. The movies that made skipping school easy, made detention an awesome way to spend a Saturday, made it possible to make a person with…