Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for May 17, 2019

oh, this’ll become quite a story arc

I think that Alice has too short an attention span and too much internal crankiness to study ballet….

Advanced Ballet: Spinning & running in circles! Perfect for Alice!

Alice the Prima Ballerina. Petey will be so proud.

Love the “clump, clumps” while waving the scarf.

Alice is all about the tutu!

The weird thing about ballet dancing is that the serious dancers only look graceful while dancing. They otherwise have a distinct waddle.

At the office, I like to spin till I fall down.

Klump Klump? I’m thinking she should give up on being a ballerina and try clogging…

Children taking ballet brings to mind my 6th grade class’s Christmas act – dancing to selections from The Nutcracker as toys in Santa’s workshop. Girls who had had ballet lessons were ballerina dolls to “The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy;” 8 of the other 9 were split into reed flutes (as in “Dance of the”) and teddy bears (finishing the performance to “Waltz of the Flowers.”) The boys were all toy soldiers, in oatmeal carton shakos, to the “March.” One girl who couldn’t or wouldn’t dance popped up as a jack-in-the box on the last note of the Waltz.

Alice doesn’t live here anymore!

I’m afraid that the discipline of ballet would be too much for this free-spirited Otterloop!

I sense trouble.