I spent Wednesday at the Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City.  Along with my wife and me, were my lovely daughter and my equally lovely son (both pictured).  We keep thinking that this will be the last family trip that we all four go on, but the kids just don’t seem to get tired of us.  They keep asking to come along. I guess I can keep taking them until I’m 80.  Then they’re going to have to take me.

We saw Love’s Labour’s Lost, not my favorite play by Shakespeare, but then his worst is still pretty damn good.  It was well-done and we all enjoyed it.  It was just a day trip– up and back.  In previous years, we’ve gone up for several days at a time and have seen 4 or 5 plays in a trip.  I’m too old (and fat) for that kind of thing now.  Plus I had to get back home and get to work!

For those friendly readers out there, take note:  I really love Shakespeare, thanks most probably to my professor at UNLV.  There is at least one Shakespeare reference in almost all of my books.  Some, like both Astrid Maxxim books, have a chapter named for a  play.  Some, like Senta and the Steel Dragon, have some Shakespearean dialog.  And some, like Eaglethorpe Buxton, are filled with Shakespeare rip-offs!