It’s quirky, fun, independent Bernice Sizemore’s 70th birthday, so why has workaholic daughter Carol gift wrapped a gun? And what has motivated change-of-life baby Evan to suddenly appear after 8 years of silence? A former food editor for the newspaper, Bernice still makes her weird health tonics, does yoga, rides a bike, and square dances (as a man – there never are enough). She also has a big secret that means Carol and Evan must move their childhood treasures out of the basement. As the three sort through boxes from earlier times, they also begin to uncover their own pasts. They finally understand, accept, and love one another and also love themselves.

"I’m Wearing My Own Clothes!" is a memory play bookended by scenes featuring two 10-year-old school girls who are writing about Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) for a school project. Raised by liberal parents who put their daughters in pants to do chores, Walker never took hers off despite frequent arrests for "impersonating a man." She was an ardent supporter of abolition, dress reform, and suffrage. Walker offered her services to the Union Army in 1861. Prejudice against her gender and clothes kept her from a commission though she volunteered in hospitals and on battlefields for three years. While serving the 52nd Ohio Infantry, she was arrested as a spy and imprisoned for four months in Castle Thunder, a notorious Confederate prison in Richmond, Virginia. Near the end of the war, Walker was finally mustered into the Union Army in Louisville, Kentucky, where she oversaw the Woman’s Military Prison Hospital. Recommendations by two generals resulted in Walker receiving the Medal of Honor in 1865, which she wore every day until her death, and she remains (in 2017) the only woman to be awarded the Medal of Honor.