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Lions and hyenas and giraffes — oh my!

February 24, 2012
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Tweet What do you get when you take some Lion King cast members to the Metro Richmond Zoo on a gorgeous 70 degree February day? IMG_1700 Rashada Dawan (she plays Shenzi the hyena) finds this giraffe a little too forward. And yes, that is a tongue going for her cup!  Her daughter Genesis is running […]

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Richmond’s Opening Night Party at Pasture

February 18, 2012
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Tweet Stop the presses! Mama got to go out! Hooray! IMG_1004 After The Lion King’s opening night performance at Richmond’s Landmark Theater, the local CBS station threw a party for the cast and crew at Pasture, a trendy Southern/Soul Food restaurant located downtown on Grace Street. Our good friend Theresa, who was the ensemble dance […]

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Valentine’s Day with TWO guys, in Richmond, VA!

February 15, 2012
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Tweet We are reunited! After one tough month of being apart, Mike flew from Minneapolis to Richmond with the cast and crew of The Lion King; Max and I also took two flights across the country from San Francisco to Richmond (via a short layover in Dallas/Fort Worth) and fell into the arms of Da-Da […]

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Turkey & Jerry: The Odd Couple

February 5, 2012
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Tweet Turkey in high chair Most who know us well understand how crazy we are about our cat Turkey. You won’t meet many cats like him — he’s surprisingly outgoing and über-affectionate.  Not at all “cat-like”. More like a dog!  And… cue the eye-rolls from the dog lovers. After rescuing him as a sickly runt […]

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Skyping with Dada and Elmo

February 2, 2012
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Tweet We’re rounding Week Five of our initial tour separation. While we make it doable, it’s always sad and exhausting to be apart. Mike scurried off to Minneapolis to join the Lion King tour after the Vegas production closed at the end of the year, and Max and I packed up the yellow bungalow on […]

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8 seconds to the boy next door

January 17, 2012
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Tweet 8 seconds. That’s the time it took to run full speed door to door, from 25 Tuscan Place to 21 Tuscan Place — but only if you cut through the row of evergreen trees that separated our properties, instead of going down my driveway and back up Danny’s. It was a familiar run across […]

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You can’t take it with you

January 5, 2012
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Tweet The packing has officially begun! And even after moving cross-country 3 times within 4 years, I still get shell-shocked at just how much we have accumulated. After my junior year in college, I spent the summer taking photographs of a multi-generational Chinese family in San Francisco’s colorful Chinatown. Inspired by a Documenting Communities class […]

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Some darn cute Lion King cubs

January 3, 2012
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Tweet Over the course of the two-and-a-half year run of the Lion King in Las Vegas, a plethora of babies were born, including our little Max. (It also seemed as if the entire makeup department got knocked up at the same time. Something in the face paint, perhaps?) In total, there were 10 babies, including […]

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Breaking up is hard to do

December 29, 2011
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Tweet Tonight when I picked Max up from daycare, I finally told Nora that we were moving. I felt devastated, like we were breaking up. She was holding Max, who nuzzled into her shoulder. Her eyes grew moist, she mustered a smile, hugged him tighter and said, “Well, I’m sure Max will do fine.” My […]

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Getting ready for a life on the road

December 3, 2011
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Tweet We are going on a tour across the country. Won’t you join us? “Cool! Road trip!” you say. To that, we laugh.  This is no whirlwind stint; we are not stopping at rest stops, cheesing it up at touristy landmarks or shacking up at motor lodges, knowing that we’ll eventually make our way back […]

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