Over 50, Still Kickin' A slightly skewed perspective on life in The Middle Ages

Lee Ann Rubsam

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My Latest Inspiration I have been reading Tasha Tudor's biography, Drawn from New England, and it has inspired me to write a biography of my best friend Peggy--authorized if she is enthused, and unauthorized if she isn't. She won't have a choice! I thought the Tasha Tudor thing had a pretty good title, seeing she was an illustrator (Drawn) and from New England (lived in New England). So I've decided to go with a catchy title like that for my buddy's biography. We want the readers to know she's an artist (she's into basketry), and we want them to know she is from Wisconsin, so we'll call it, A Basket Full of Bratwurst. Isn't that good??!!! I haven't got much material yet--just a great title--so I'll have to interview Peg (for the authorized version) or those that know her (for the unauthorized version). Better yet, why don't I just make it up as I go along? Who cares if it has any basis in reality? Hey, Hillary Clinton got away with this, and look how well her book did! Especially for the unauthorized version, we will have to find people who aren't Peg's favorite friends and can provide scoops of dirt (isn't that the way they do it for the celebs?). Maybe, true to the Drawn from New England style, we'll just stick with my own fond remembrances. I'd better make this biography sound convincingly positive to Peg, so that she'll cooperate, because we'll need lotsa pictures--cute baby ones right up through the awkward years. (No, I'm not referring to adolescence. It's the latest stage we're in--the almost Depends generation.) We'll want to include the colorful pictures of her accomplished artwork--knit sweaters, baskets, paintings, quill boxes, silk banners, grapevine wreaths, beadwork, and any other of her past art passions that I can't recall right now. I'd just go steal the pics off her web site, but she has them all scientifically sabotaged so that they can't be swiped. If I do an unauthorized version, I probably won't have to pay her anything from the massive profits I make. But then, she probably won't let me have the pics, and I'd have to rely on dirt. Such a hard decision! Tsk. This biography brainstorm has just got to be a winner! I figure, with Peg's colorful, multi-faceted art career, she has at least as much going for her as Tasha Tudor. All Tasha did was create art while living like the pioneers did 100 years before her. Hey, Peg did bugs and butterflies, too! (See Chapter 9--The Lepidoptera Years.) We could add a little extra interest by having her pictured crafting an art piece in an RV with a flat tire out in the woods of Door County. It's a sure winner. Yes, I like the ring of it--A Basket Full of Bratwurst.   © Copyright 2003 by Lee Ann Rubsam. All rights reserved.

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