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...made everything ourselves. It wasn??t just Granny—my mother did too. Snack day in elementary school warranted a night of baking. My classmates brought bagged popcorn or Saltines, but my mother started the night before. She baked bread, mixed flour, yeast, milk, and eggs in her large silver bowl. My snack day became so anticipated in Mrs. Reynolds’s class that kids would talk about it days in advance. My mother never knew, nor I suspect minded, that other kids brought store-bought popcorn...
...wasn??t about the money; in my family, we made before we bought. For my grandmother, this was obvious. Her values rested in the 1920s town of Zilpo, where townsfolk didn’t know why you would buy new drapes if the ones you had blocked the sun okay, or if you could make them yourself. Didn’t see the reason for a new table if there was one in the sitting room already; besides, what would you do with another table anyway, buy more trinkets to cover it? They did, however, realize the need...
...from scripts resting on black music stands. “Talk of children at the age of 20 is a definite mark of crazy,” one actor said. He played a character named Nick, an English major with serious game. The audience roared with laughter, but he wasn??t finished yet. “You need to learn when to pull out...of a relationship,” Nick quipped. Where could you have listened to the advice of such a sagely wisecracking (fictional) bro? Too bad, you missed out unless you attended Harvard?...
...dancing Christmas tree. I danced the entire route. I wasn??t even on a float, so I had to travel,” she says...
...going to be really hard for me to have a job going from 9 to 5, to have a boss, having little control over what I did with my day.” Julie Zikherman ’96, Jasanoff’s former roommate in Adams, says she wasn??t at all surprised by Jasanoff’s career path. “Some of the fun that she has in history has to do with telling stories and she’s clearly always loved that, and she does that now full time...