PHOTO COURTESY AMY ALKON Amy Alkon My new boyfriend is messy. He drops his socks, underwear and clothing on the floor by the bed. He’s not lazy or entitled, just a spacehead. It’s no big deal for me to pick this stuff up, as I feel like I’m showing him love by caretaking. However, he […]
Love
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PARADOX
PARADOXBy Vera Wardner Dougan Holidays are portrayed as times of rejoicing but as we all come to knowthey are often fraught with grief. It seems appropriate to share this poemat this season. It was written by my mother in 1925; I have it in a booklet, Mirrors, that she put together for my father, family […]
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Passion and fashion
Don’t miss attending one of three dinner-theater productions at the Hoogland Center for the Arts of Love, Loss and What I Wore. The show stars some of the most fabulous female talent in Springfield – Nancy Cole, Claire Gordon, Susan Jeffers, Julie Staley and Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson, with Aasne Vigesaa directing. This funny and poignant play […]
