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Happy Father’s Day
This is my Dad when he was young and handsome, sitting on the front steps with, from left to right, me, my brother Rick, and my sister Liz.
My Dad did not believe in Father’s Day – or Mother’s Day. He said they were fake holidays invented by the merchants to sell more stuff. As a merchant myself, I have to wonder “what’s wrong with that?” Dad and I did not agree on everything.
This is my first Father’s Day since I lost my father, and I have been thinking about him more than usual, and shedding just a few more tears than usual.
Only Five Days Left!
This design was inspired by a conversation with my ever-inspiring niece Meg Taintor, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of critically-acclaimed Boston fringe theatre group Whistler in the Dark… and coffee shop manager extraordinaire. (I remember fondly all the singers, painters, actors, and musicians with whom I waited tables when I was starting this business!)
My favorite review ever (of Whistler’s 2009 production of The Bacchae) comes from Louise Kennedy in The Boston Globe:
This is theater at once returned to its ancient roots and rejuvenated with modern artistry. Somewhere, Euripedes is smiling…
Go. See. Feel. And take your children. Show them what theatre can be.
A year later, I still cry tears of aunt-ly pride whenever I read this!
If you live anywhere near Boston, you are in luck! You still have five chances left to see Whistler’s astonishing production of One Flea Spare. EDGEBoston says:
One Flea Spare is as hot and urgent as any fever – a riveting theatrical triumph.
Go!
