Back in the day…

I was really involved in theater. I’ve been on stage as long as I can remember and started doing radio commercials before I was in school. My mom was an extremely talented seamstress and the costumes I had for parades and Halloween made more front page news articles than I can remember…

That’s all coming back to me now… I was at the Town Hall Meeting last night, and when I had my camera and laptop, no one was surprised that I’d only been back for a week and was already covering the local news for our paper. When I showed up at first dress rehearsal tonight for the current theater production, none of the cast even blinked that I was there to do prompting… half the cast remembered me, even tho I’d been gone for 17 years… the other half saw the way I made myself at home in the theater and, I’m sure, assumed I belonged there… because I did.

One of the young actresses dress wasn’t working for the part… and the costume lady went back into storage and started pulling out a few dresses. The first two weren’t going to fit right, so she held up the third and I gasped… it was a dress my mother had made for me to wear when I’d played Wendy in Peter Pan… 25 years ago…

There’s no question about it… I’m home…