Comments. Roma and Fred are so smitten with each other. He's already given her a friendship ring and a thimble (a Freudian condom? invitation to domesticity?), and he talks about a pillow she may be planning to make for him. She wants to share some personal worries with him, which he is keen to hear, …
Roma and Fred #2
More Introduction What struck me about these hundreds of letters exchanged between my maternal grandparents from May 1915 to June 1916 was how independent, flirty and manipulative my grandmother was, and how my grandfather, in spite of his mushy love letters, was a master of secrecy and avoidance. They appear to have met at a …
California Fruit Cake
I call this fruitcake for people who don't like fruitcake. I make quite a few batches at Christmas time and everybody likes it. It's not "my" recipe. I got it from someone who got it from Sunset, I think, but there was a story about it in The New York Times, and if you Google …
Shakespeare Summers
In 1986, I was between jobs and had the opportunity to shadow my father directing "The Glass Menagerie" in Santa Cruz. I had heard that he was a gifted director and he was willing to have me watch and take notes. Long before rehearsals started, I interviewed him about the set and the play and …
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