i should have asked my two facebook friends to shop with me. because i am invited to be on a new talk show and have been instructed to wear a bright color, no prints. i opened my closet sunday morning and there was a black dress, and another, and another, punctuated by an occasional black skirt. i think i have been in mourning for my life.
instead of shopping, i went to a brunch at vinci’s on halsted street, right next to the steppenwolf theater. after brunch was a performance of clybourne park. the play is about what happens when the first black family moves into a home in an all white neighborhood and what happens twenty years later when the first white couple proposes to move into the same home. i believed f2fb friend #210 lynn sanders would enjoy the brunch and the play particularly since the playwright bruce norris would stop in at the brunch and say a few words.
lynn is a playwright who developed a play about artificial insemination of the whooping cranes in beriboo, wisconsin. it inspired me to write a short story. inspiration works in strange ways.
the brunch wasn’t my doing. it was organized by f2fb friend #211 nabil foster, who is a fellow northwestern law school alum and a partner in a law firm.
nabil is of the ba'hai faith and has a strong sense of social justice. i don't know how he has time to do everything!
unfortunately, lynn wasn’t feeling well and we ended up coming home before the play was performed. at least she got a chance to speak with the playwright as well as the artistic director of steppenwolf. if you want tickets to the play, here’s a link:
http://chicago.metromix.com/theater/theater_event/clybourne-park-sheffield-de-paul/2484838/content
tomorrow, i will write about the taping. the producer from the show promised me a surprise. i hope it’s not a snake!
two thirds of the way through this project and this year–it’s time for me to think about what next year’s resolution will be. to try to lose five pounds? puh-leeze. nothing is worth doing if it at first does not appear to be impossible.
what’s your new year’s eve resolution going to be???
arlynnpresser 
September 12th, 2011 at 11:27 pm
New Years? Please – that’s far too far away…. Glad to see that things are on track and that now you are becoming a celeb… love to Rosie and co. Enjoy the experience – and hey black is good – just a splash of colour will do the trick! A red scarf perhaps?
September 13th, 2011 at 12:29 am
i think you’re right!!! a black dress and maybe a scarf. great on short notice!
March 1st, 2013 at 4:38 pm
I always loved viewing this blog once per week or so as you really do usually have a number of good posts so congratulations coming from one of the enthusiasts!
March 1st, 2013 at 4:45 pm
many thanks!