Eclectica

WHere have you been?

O. — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:32:55 +0000

Well, I am currently in PA in a little town that gets no cell reception and the internet only got hooked up in the 1st. I am the Artistic Director of a summer theatre school for high school students called ETC. IN addition to running the day to day I design the sets, the posters and am writing a bit for our children’s show. The work days begin at 8am and run until midnight every day. I am really enjoying it, but need more time to break away during the work day to spend time with my family.

More later when I get a chance.

Dance recital

O. — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:11:29 +0000

The school year is over. It has been very busy, in addition to the productions I have had a lot of meetings and committee work to do. And things will only get busier once next year starts since I will be the new Head of the Department. It is something I am looking forward to. I know it will be very time consuming but the challenge will be good.

In other news, Arden and McKelvey had their dance recital last weekend. From a totally unbiased perspective, it was the most precious thing ever! They performed beautifully, and McKelvey even had a solo. Well she had a brief moment where she was the only one onstage. But I thought she owned it. It was so graceful. I have pictures up. I have some cute pix of the kids as well.

Spring time is here

O. — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:58:48 +0000

I finally put up some pictures of spring, it has been here for weeks but I’ve been swamped.

We drew on the sidewalks, and tidied up the yard as well.

All the pictures are Here.

Times that when you should have more important things to do

O. — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:14:01 +0000

What I’m working on now

O. — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:26:32 +0000

I am in the midst of Little Shop of Horrors. Here is one afternoon’s work shrunk down to a minute or so:

Questions and observations

O. — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:41:17 +0000

At school we are doing Little Shop of Horrors, which means that I have been listening to the music a lot in preparation. As a result, the girls have started asking questions.

“What is Skid Row?”

“Why does the plant like to eat people?”

“What does ’semi sadist’ mean?”

So it brings up a lot of questions. A lot of them about how scary the plant is. I thought the best way to answer that was to just get them to see it.

Today the whole family went to see the puppets. They had a great time looking at them and playing with them. Liam just had fun scooting around the big empty stage. McKelvey’s reaction when I opened the mouth of the biggest plant was:

“It’s like a rowboat with teeth.”

Great talk on creativity

O. — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:29:37 +0000

I found this great talk how creativity is as essential as literacy.

Here is a linkto the original page.

While walking McKelvey to school today

O. — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:00:45 +0000

McKevley: ” Dad, I want to grow up and be a teenager forever and not a grown up.”

Me: “Why do you want to be a just a teenager?”

McKevley: ” Teenagers can get to do things, grown ups have to do things.”

I couldn’t argue with that.

Something to Make you think

O. — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:12:04 +0000

I found an eye-opening graphic:

I found it via Digg.

more pictures up

O. — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:22:48 +0000

I have posted some more pictures of the family. McKelvey had her Magic Tree House birthday party. We had a great time. We turned the kids into:

Mummies.

they also had wheelbarrow races:
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McKelvey enjoyed her cake.