Leaving Our Town
The experience is so deeply embedded that, even now, I occasionally dream about forgetting my lines on stage. I had been cast as Emily in...
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Alisa Bair
- Jun 29, 2021
- 8 min
The road finally taken
“Lisa, Lisa,” she said, her soothing voice rising over her steaming cup. “You may have had your back to your daughters then. But now you...
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Alisa Bair
- Dec 23, 2020
- 3 min
The light in our hands
Daughter Leslie texted a photo just after Thanksgiving with, “The gang’s all here!” I immediately recognized the nativity set we’d given...
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Alisa Bair
- Oct 20, 2019
- 2 min
"Yet Will I Sing"
In the living room of the modest Dotterer home that cool, autumn evening, I sat across from 55-year-old Ken, listening to him tell me...
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Alisa Bair
- Oct 19, 2019
- 4 min
"Come Unto Me"
It was late fall, 1979, and Mother Teresa had just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I saw her on TV and was so deeply moved I needed...
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Alisa Bair
- May 28, 2019
- 5 min
All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Her Before She Got to Kindergarten
She was born with a voice and knows exactly how to use it. So far, she is the embodiment of much that escaped me in my childhood and that...
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Alisa Bair
- Mar 12, 2019
- 6 min
Filling Her Shoes
This is the set of Hamilton, open to the audience when you first enter the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway. I looked down at my...
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Alisa Bair
- Nov 22, 2017
- 6 min
When a Puppy Earns His Soul
He was sitting quietly toward the back of the pen in the barn when we arrived, shy and slightly larger than the others. A barefoot Amish...
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Alisa Bair
- Jul 23, 2017
- 4 min
Train Station Encounter
Newark Penn Station, Thursday, July 13, 2:01 PM. The air conditioning must’ve been broken, because the train station was swelteringly...
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Alisa Bair
- Dec 16, 2016
- 6 min
“…some place for the singing of angels…”
The night was clear, cold and starry as my husband and I finished dinner near the wharf in Annapolis, Md., and headed down Randall Street...
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Alisa Bair
- Oct 19, 2016
- 3 min
With All My Love
It wasn’t exactly ideal weather to begin an October beach vacation. A low pressure system, driven by the northernmost bands of a...
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Alisa Bair
- Sep 16, 2016
- 4 min
My Messy Dorm Room
This story ranks up there as one of my top five most embarrassing moments. It was April of my freshman year at a small college in...
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Alisa Bair
- Jun 24, 2016
- 4 min
Lady Liberty and The Hemorrhaging Woman
Years ago we were returning from a trip, sailing along the turnpike to music on the radio. As we approached a mountain tunnel, we took...
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Alisa Bair
- Apr 26, 2016
- 4 min
Coming Down Out of the Clouds
It’s all over – as ephemeral as a rainbow or the enchanted village of Brigadoon rising out of the Scottish mist for one day every hundred...
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Alisa Bair
- Apr 6, 2016
- 3 min
Soup for Everyone
Returning from a long walk this frigid April morning, I unwound my scarf, unzipped my down vest and heard myself say out loud, “What’s...
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