Scarlet Masque Theatre Journal New Beginnings and Fond Farewells Vol. 1 | Page 133

like a cliche, I can think things are in a positive and forward looking position. I much prefer that
than think I’m walking away from a program that's folding under our feet. We have a great
theatre program, and I’m lucky to have been apart of that. So, I have confidence we will continue
and get better.
The second act for me: I need to take an intermission. That intermission will probably allow me
some time to reflect on the first act. What Wabash meant to me, and what I’ve accomplished and
what I haven’t accomplished. And so the second act will be a reflection. I’m open to suggestions.
For example, I tease about opening a dodgeball facility for senior citizens. And I need that, time
to have the silliness of all that to sink in. So if I can come up with more “dodgeball facilities for
seniors” ideas, and I’m being entirely facetious and ridiculous you know, I think that
intermission will be a time to think wildly. For us, there is a good chance we will relocate to my
granddaughter and my son. One’s in Massachusetts, the other’s in New York. We will test the
waters for about a year because it's cold there. When people think about retirement, people think
about the South, and as a southerner, I don’t know why i’m not going South, I’m going North
where winters are long and cold. But family’s there. So Act II, call it rearing up the baby and
developing the family. Hopefully the third act isn't an Albee play, with family and parents are at
each other’s throat all the time. If we live in New York, we will live an hour and half outside of
the city. Take time to go into the city and see things. Reconnect with some people, and pursue
some writing I haven’t pursued yet.