Claire (9yrs): I’m bored. Let’s listen to an opera and act it out.
Annalise (6yrs): Don Giovanni?
Claire: Yes! Mommy, put on the opera. I’ll be Don Juan. Annalise, you be the girls I make fall in love with me, …. and then leave and break their hearts.
Annalise: Okay! As long as you let me be the stone statue who leads you off to hell at the end.
Me: um, girls …. I don’t think ….
Claire: MOM. It’s fine. Let’s do it!
About Christi
I am a single mother with two young daughters who are the world to me. I am a philosophy professor, especially fond of Kierkegaard and Augustine. Presently, I teach as an adjunct at a plethora of colleges in the Houston area, trying to make ends meet.
Creating art brings me immense joy, but only recently have I begun to venture into the arena of making my creations a consumer commodity. I'd rather my work be created as a good in itself, and given to those I love. But necessity breeds invention, they say, and human beings have to eat.
