Mary Fons - "Writer! Quilter! All the things!"

Doing repairs in China. Image: Wikipedia.
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1. What has Mary put off for a long time?

This is a picture of a site in San Francisco in 2006, but what I look at looks a little like this. Image: Wikipedia.
So there’s a lot of construction in the South Loop. More all the time. Buildings being built to the south of me on State; buildings to the north of me on Wabash....

Not one of the dinners I got, thankfully. But still. Image: Wikipedia.
As a single, thirty-something woman with no children, living in downtown Chicago as I do, I am careful about the stories I tell about myself and the stories I tell to myself.
There’s a tired narrative about my demographic that really makes the rounds. This socially-constructed, media-fabricated archetype of the woman “like me” shows up in TV shows, movies, advertisements, and popular culture at large. The narrative asserts...

L-R: Marianne and Dorothy, c. 1990. Photo: Not sure, but I’m sure glad they took the picture. (Also, Gramma looks pretty serious in this picture, but she was good at being silly, too.)
Mom and I filmed three (excellent) episodes of the PBS show today. It felt great to be back on the set as a guest. What can I say? My mother and I work really well together and I miss working with her so closely....