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#TBT Heat wave, overalls and halter top, linoleum and beer
Pictures taken by Window-Boy. We were dying of the heat (metaphorically) while many Chicagoans were actually dying of the heat. It was an historic heat wave. The air burned when you inhaled. There had been a city-wide blackout. I took … Continue reading
#TBT Of course a witch would be reading this book
Me backstage during a production of Macbeth, in which I played one of the witches, reading William Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, before it was time to put on my costume.
#TBT gone platinum
I dyed my hair platinum for about 2 seconds and then shaved it all off. I loved the platinum, but it was too high-maintenance. These pics are from when I was visiting during my time in grad school. We were … Continue reading
#TBT I’m going places!
Dear Sheila, You don’t need to go through life with your fists clenched. Love, Your future self … whose fists are still clenched. P.S. I love your yellow overalls.
#TBT Travels with Sandi
My friend Sandi and I at Rocky Point – an amusement park in Rhode Island (think “Adventureland”) – after going on The Flume, a roller coaster-type experience that ends with the cars careening through water. Hence: our drenched appearance. We … Continue reading
#TBT Glasses
Me, Michael, Laurie. My God, we were babies. And yet, of course, life then was important and difficult and sometimes heart-wrenching. Life usually is. Life was also adventurous, hilarious, spontaneous. We may have more miles on us now but in … Continue reading
#TBT 3 a.m. Many years ago.
Get up off the floor, Sheila. You can do it. Oh … okay … you’re standing now … but you’re still an asshole! The joke that night – a frigid night in Chicago – was that I (light paraphrase) “looked … Continue reading
#TBT Senior Prom
Don’t I look so thrilled, so ladylike? My date was 21 years old. I was 17. I was a rebel and I didn’t even know it. Or who knows, maybe I did.