Sewing

I've never learned to sew. (Knitting might be fun.) I do know a Chinese seamstress who used to take English lessons from my sister Moira.  Her husband doesn't speak Chinese and her English still isn't very good, but they seem to get along.

I don't know a lot of tailors.  I remember Motl the mousy tailor in the musical Fiddler on the Roof.  I once saw the movie with an outdoor audience in the park next to Roy Thompson Hall.  When Motl was getting up the nerve to tell Tevye that he loved his daughter, someone in the audience yelled, "You can do it, Motl!" A year ago, when people were wondering whether Bernie Sanders would run for president, I kept posting online, "You can do it, Bernie!" I'm glad he listened to me.