My mother was being sad at me on the phone the other day about the lack of updates lately, so...

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Every winter a local church, the House of Hope, which has for a long time had some kind of a vague partnership with Macalester, hosts something called "Macalester Sunday". This rather hilarious tradition (of many decades standing) is distinguished by five things ( Read more... )

So the rest of choir tour was fun, if kind of exhausting. We saw Chicago Lyric's production of Die Fledermaus, which a hilarious and impressive romp -- all singers concerned win major points for being willing to throw themselves all over the stage for a laugh. Also 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which was extremely cute. (Mum, was it the ( Read more... )

My family is in a peculiar state with respect to the holidays ( Read more... )