The Notebook: The Musical

Veronica and I went out for lunch and to a stage production of The Notebook at the Ordway last weekend.

It was such a nice day in St. Paul!

We had great seats, and the show itself was amazing -- a real emotional rollercoaster! Highly recommended.

Veronica's time is very much booked these days, so I appreciated the opportunity to hang out with her.

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Purple Rain: The Musical

This looked like a fun outing! Grandma Linda treated Veronica to this pre-Broadway show as a birthday/Christmas gift. R and Holly joined them as well.

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The Little Mermaid

I was waiting to see if there would be professional photos available for purchase from this production, but I haven't seen any yet. All I have is this not-strictly-permitted snap from the curtain call:

 

And V's bio from the online program:

She worked really hard in this show, in the ensemble and as a tap-dancing seagull, managing three- or four-hour nightly rehearsals on top of her transition to a college-prep high school. It was cool for her to be included, given this was a high school and adult cast!

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Machina

This long-awaited edition of an 80-song album from my favorite band finally arrived last month. Let's not talk about how many years I have been waiting to hear this...

You can see in my shrink wrap reflection below that I was pretty excited! Spending some time with the set has been and continues to be a lot of fun. I did some writing about it over on Instagram.

Here it is with my signed poster from the original era that happens to adorn the wall behind my record player:

Track listing:

That's the post... Probably off topic, but it's been a slow news week, and I just wanted to share :-).

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School photos 2025/2026

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Halloween 2025

It was a fun year!

Veronica went as a fairy:

Omri had a really cool LED mask with 50 different faces!

He went trick-or-treating with two friends who had the same mask!

The adults hung out by the fire:

The candy trade (I hope Charlie likes Almond Joy!):

Omri made a killing:

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Halloween Ball 2025

I was the official "roaming" photographer at the Upper Elementary ball at Omri's school. I feel weird posting pictures of other peoples' kids, so I'm keeping this minimal (leaving some of my favorite results out) and only showing faces in this group shot:

 

Every year my photos get a little further "out there," but because they are for Halloween, I wouldn't have them any other way.

 

Magician:

Limbo:

I know that guy!

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