Crowning Glory
June 28, 2011
Almost every woman who lives at The Place goes once a week to Marveen, the beauty shop stylist. Marveen cuts, perms, and shapes every head of downy white hair into pretty much exactly the same style—more or less flat on top, ear-length, and fluffed out on the sides, a modified George Washington look.
Alice goes to Marveen too, but she doesn’t appreciate looking like all the other residents, even though once, long ago, she and her five sisters all wore the same cut. Read the rest of this entry »
Noteworthy
June 20, 2011
Because of their poor hearing, Alice and her new dining room partner, Celia, have started passing notes back and forth to learn about what’s going on in one another’s lives. They worry about how other people at The Place might react to what they’re writing because these very people are often the subjects of their exchanges. So they tend to treat the notes like CIA operatives would treat missives about undercover operations. In other words, they all but eat them once they’ve been read.
Speaking of Dresses…
June 13, 2011
Alice’s father, Louie, inherited a pair of tailor’s shears from his father. Like so many other every day objects from the distant past, these shears stun us with their beauty.
Graduation Day – June 1933
June 4, 2011
Sometimes Alice was bad. Very bad. She likes to remember those times. Read the rest of this entry »
