Pura Vida Sometimes giveaway for Phoenix-area screening of The Nutcracker The other day – a cool, tranquil, uneventful morning – as I was driving my four-year-old to school, I looked in the rearview mirror and saw a very devastated-looking toddler. “What’s wrong, I asked?” “I want to be a *big* ballerina.” She loves her ballet class and is learning the fundamentals, but she wants to wear her toe shoes and leap forth in a graceful gran jeté. Her ambition is bigger than that of a little ballerina. Like her mama, she likes to bite off more than she can chew. So […]