An Extremely Civilized Saturday
Setting: Chopin Theatre in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Two women have arrived on a Saturday afternoon to take in a viewing of The House Theatre‘s The Nutcracker. Cast: Jeanette as sister #1, and Kate as sister #2 S#1: Now, my friend Nathan Allen scored me some free tickets to this shindig, but that doesn’t mean [...]
Eternal Grandma Ginia
Sometimes the weird mini vacations we take have more in store than the well-planned, expensive jaunts to exciting locales. So it goes when you take an overworked therapist (my sis) and a stressed out mom (me), throw in a car, some snacks, a mysterious basil plant, and a 12 hour drive to Rochester, NY to [...]
Kath
My sister is a psychotic therapist at a hospital, I mean a therapist at a psychiatric hospital, and by “psychiatric hospital”, I mean tall building of therapeutic persuasion. They don’t like them called psych hospitals anymore apparently, but I can’t remember what the new pc name is. She spends her days trying to make lots [...]
