Here are the girls with their mother, Kathleen. Many full-time moms are so exhausted with caring for the kids that they don't have time to continue deepening the intellectual side of life. Not so with Kathleen. Her mind continues to probe philosophy and religion and literature. Don finds himself embarrassed at having let the busyness of life dull his determination to constantly probe more deeply. Well, that's not entirely true. Sometimes we make that emotional decision for good reason. Still, he's embarrassed.