On Saturday evening, we went to Berkeley to the Gather Restaurant 
for a wonderful meal 
and then down the block to the Marsh Theatre to see DAUGHTER OF A GARBAGEMAN. 
This is a tale of Maureen Langan’s 1970’s upbringing in New Jersey. Her Irish mother and Bronx-born father, a New York City sanitation worker. 
She presented this one woman show talking about her upbringing and how her father and mother influenced her life. She was particularly upset by the fact that Kim Kardashian gets a book deal after doing a sex tap and when the star of The Apprentice can become the president? WHO IS TO BLAME? Is it her parents’ fault? America’s fault? With humor, honesty, and insight, Maureen taps into the hearts and frustrations of hard-working people everywhere who wonder if they, too, were raised wrong.
On Sunday we left our friends in Lafayette and met up with a very old family friend, Susie Dornin Johnson. 
Susie’s father was a classmate of my dads at the US Naval Academy and our paths crossed many times over the years. We spent a couple of hours catching up before heading to Sonoma and our friend Beth Harper.