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Enjoy the plane ride, or not

This is the col­umn I had planned to write first. It was the “We’re on our way to Hawaii…” col­umn, “…and guess what it reminded me of…” Then the bro­ken ankle thing hap­pened and I got out of sequence. I’ve gone pub­lic with that story, so no need to rehash here. Prob­a­bly that’s all right […]

You can't hide anything in Oberlin

I love hav­ing been born and raised in Ober­lin. I’ve always loved being a small town girl, even with the inher­ent “every­one knows every­one else and tells every­one else every­thing” neces­sity that goes along with it. For me it started early. I began work­ing at my aunt and uncle’s insur­ance agency, Sperry-Gorske, when I was 12. […]

It's never too late for baseball

I love base­ball. I wish I had loved it ear­lier. Actu­ally, I didn’t know I loved it until I moved to Philadel­phia back in the sev­en­ties. Hav­ing grown up in the Cleve­land area there was never much empha­sis on base­ball dur­ing the six­ties. But in Philadel­phia they piped audio from games over loud­speak­ers down­town. Strangers […]

This Rose has many talents

A rose is a rose, is a rose — or so they say. But not so with Debra Rose. She is ever so much more. Singer, actress, human­i­tar­ian, D.I.V.A Founder and now she’s a direc­tor. Debra’s the­atri­cal career began in our very own Hall Audi­to­rium dur­ing the sum­mer of Alan Titus. How well I remember […]

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