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In spite of everything…

I originally started this newsletter on Dec 28, intending to send it out on January 2, 2026, as a welcome to the new year letter… but then all sorts of life happened. So here it is, the middle of January, and I know I’m not the only one who feels pummeled by the atrocities in the daily news and the stresses of family and work life.

I have drafted at least 5 different versions of this newsletter over the past two weeks, trying to find a way to say that “in the midst of it all, I have to keep looking for the good.”

Like many, (but apparently not enough), I read Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl while in junior high school. But I also did a lot of community theatre during my teens, and one of the plays we did at the Globe of the Great Southwest was “The Diary of Anne Frank” in November 1994, 31 years ago now. I played Anne’s sister, Margot, alongside my mother Terri playing their mother, Edith Frank. Our director, Lynn, was a wonderful librarian in her day job, and she guided the cast and crew through the incredible heart-wrenching storytelling of bringing a young girl’s written diary from the early 1940’s to the stage in West Texas, 50 years after Anne Frank and most of her family died due to the horrors of the Holocaust in WWII...

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