Sunday, December 23, 2007
(3:09 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
On Being Proud of One's Parents
I went home for Christmas a little early this year so that I could hear my dad's band, Episodic, play a show. I had listened to the demo, so I knew that they were good, but nonetheless I was really impressed by their live show. They started off with a true prog-rock epic, including a pretty balls-out guitar solo by my dad. Apparently they're playing in Grand Rapids next week, if any of my readers are loathsome western Michiganites and want to go see them. An album is currently in the production stage, and they're already writing new material.Meanwhile, my mom's birthday was today, and someone gave her an Italian phrasebook for her second trip to Europe this coming summer with her school. She hopes to go enough times that when the teacher who currently leads the trips retires, she can take over leading them. In the last few years, she's also been to India -- and won a teacher award her first year, and been on the front page of the Flint Journal for the creative activities she comes up with for her kids.
And as an added bonus: my sister spends her days teaching kids who are transitioning from jail back into the normal school population.
