by kathykastner | Jan 31, 2024 | Blog: Dispatches, explorations, Mood
In the 50’s and 60’s, Toronto may have been a staid, close-down-on-Sundays town, but the Kastner house was rocking. In my fam, there was always music, whether live – my banjo and guitar-playing sister and brother – or recorded: the music of the theatre;...
by kathykastner | Oct 22, 2022 | explorations
Monday: I went to the library to renew my card and found myself asking the young woman with streaks of neon in her hair where I might find product. She looked up: “Um, ok, go for it, I guess” and grudgingly told me where to go. I was so crushed I didn’t even have the...
by kathykastner | Oct 22, 2022 | explorations
I always felt fortunate that I had as my ‘aging’ model, a mother who started tap dancing at age 66, and became associate TV producer at age 68. But my real insight into a joyous journey to the End came via a tweet chat. My mother was a force of nature. She...
