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It’s been a busy week with many activities.We had gymnastics on Saturday; visited a farm with friends Autumn and Clay Monday afternoon, and then checked out cousin Sean’s play that evening. Tuesday morning Aidan and I continued building and painting a Pinewood Derby car that we started a while back. He enjoyed working the Dremel [...]

This afternoon we trekked down to The Theatre School of DePaul University to take in their production of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland. We’ve been reading the book, and the play was just about as crazy as Carroll’s original text–complete with the long long drop down the rabbit hole, the Mad Hatter, the grinning [...]

Parricide, greed, lecherous desire, the existence of God, the existence of oneself, the interconnectedness of all humanity, the very meaning of life–thinking on such topics is bound to leave a mark. It has on me. Over this past Thanksgiving weekend, I had the real pleasure of taking in a production of The Brothers Karamazov at [...]