Burb Appeal

When my husband suggested we take our seven-year-old daughter to see a local performance of Beauty and the Beast, I had to duel with my demons. Community theater? Me? "Shouldn't I rear my daughter on the Great White Way of Broadway plays and musicals?

I have a thing for rescue. Put in certain circumstances I act before I think, especially when crises involve animals. It's a reflex.

Nothing could have frightened me more than moving out to suburbia with a man who was never home. I was too young and jaded to picture myself in the isolation of a commuter town.