Ilene Sings

Ilene joined the DePaul University Community Chorus about a year ago. In that time she has sung with them in several performances, the most recent of which was last week.

I shot a few clips and compiled them into this short video.




(Look hard, she is in the first row, on the left.)

I'm very proud of her, I know she worked hard to learn the material.

Thanks Lane for helping me get this uploaded. 

Latin's 10th Grade Party



A Small Video I made at the Latin 10th grade party Ilene helped plan.

A New Year

Rosh Hashanah services fell on a Thursday this year; so we went of to Heidi and Jim's house the night before for dinner .

In typical Kirsch style, there was food for 30 to feed the 11 of us attending. It's as if he is constant state of readiness on the odd chance that large family of hungry Jews happens to wonder past his door. But if a group did suddenly make a suprise appearance, they would be welcomed in and treated to quite a feast.

It's kind of strange not having Kimmy or Teddy there, but it's just not possible with them off to college. Time shoots by at speeds that rival the electrons swirling through the  Large Hadron Collider, as memories are stored, put away till a time when they will be more precious than the worries of today.

I have at least 800 hours of video, of which greater than 90% of it remains unwatched. I have this vision of me sitting in front of a screen viewing hour after hour, proclaiming "That was what was going on while I was so busing filming it for a later date."

A date that I fear is fast approaching.

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While Lane assures me that he really likes going to Latin, and that he has made a lot of friends there, he still seems to depend on the friendships he made at Catherine Cook. I do wish he could add a few new names to the list. He seems to have found some realy good people at Latin, it's just tricky for him to move to a point where he has the same kind of comfort level he has with his CCS friends.

I can fully understand since, for one, they are a really exceptional group of kids. Lane has assembled a group, that without exception, are caring, loyal friends that share a bond built on years of trust. They all have drive and take pride in their work; as a parent I could not possibly wish for a better group of people to surround Lane.

Perhaps I can understand his desire to hold fast to his group, since Ilene and I have happly done the same.
We have been so luckly to find that this "exceptional group of kids" come equiped with parents that have become the core of our social life.
This friday night, while the boys were out celibrating davy's birthday, some of us had dinner and drinks at a small noodle shop.

A recent trip to Michigan



Sometimes you just feel like a glass of Cider

I'm in the wrong business. No one is standing in like to buy Insurance, and people are "Happy to buy a jar of Apple Butter.

Brooke's Big Day

The Detroit "Breakfeast Club"



Lane at Passport NYC Film Camp

Lane and Passport NYC Film camp friends with the cast of Curb Your Enthusiasm. 

Click below for story.
http://lanejlubell.blogspot.com/2011/07/curb-your-enthusiasm-season-8.html

KIrsch Family Bar B Q

If you could just visit any time or place- Where and when would it be.

Golden Age


If you could travel back to any single place and time, where and when would it be?
Last night I saw Woody Allen’s new film Midnight in Paris, without writing a “Film Review”
Let me just say that the film, aside from telling story of the ebb and flow of inter-twining love interests; it also addresses the romance people can feel for a time and place.

The protagonist in the tale Gill, (Owen Wilson) walks through the streets of Paris in search of the Dream of the Paris of the 20s. Through the magic of film, at the stroke of midnight he is approached by a vintage auto that has the power to bring him to the very center of the time and place he has longed to see. A city of beauty, populated by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Picasso and a host of artistic treasures at the height of their prowess with Gertrude Stein holding court. For Gill this is the Artistic "Shangri-La" , a utopian dream to be able to learn from and be accepted into the heart of “His Golden Age”.

But woody Allen does not write for Disney, so we find that just as he in convinced that It is Paris in the 20s that was the undisputed height of civilization, he falls in love with a woman that “Is” a part of that world yet pines for an earlier time. It is Gill that realizes the artist or romantic in any time period will see the beauty of some bygone area.

The film shows people that are happy to live in the present, and have no fantasy about the past. There are also characters that see beauty only in the past. But that ultimately maybe the of us can appreciate the beauty, and greatness of past achievements, while embracing the world where we find ourselves today. The only “True world” we can occupy.


But If you could , let's say just visit any time or place- Where and when would it be.