I noticed in the schedule of the Democratic National Convention that Nancy Keenan spoke yesterday as the president of NARAL.  I like her!  As a teacher and legislator, she was one of “our people” when I was a lobbyist intern for the Montana Federation of Teachers. One day there was a call of the house, a motion which can [...]

I suppose if my husband was running for president I would let professionals groom me.  As it is I’m ready to go to the salon of the mom of a kid who goes to my school and let her have at it, even though her six-year-old looked like she cut her own bangs.  (Her mom [...]

As My Kid watches the annoyingly juvenile “Disney Channel Games”, I can’t help but think of the people who made such a big fuss about Miley Cyrus and her too adult Vanity Fair photo shoot—so that she was forced to pull out of this age-appropriate summer campy televised activity. She seemed to genuinely enjoy being [...]

I’m getting nervous. There is a lot to do. I’ve got my South Oxford Space rehearsals booked for daytimes when My Kid is in school.   I’ve decided what to wear on stage. My Kid has a dentist appointment this week. We have to shop for school supplies. I have to get the apartment ready [...]

  Someone in this family is in EUROPE on business AND IT’S NOT ME.   IT SHOULD BE ME.  I’M THE ONE who studied French.   I’M THE ONE who loves to travel.  I’M THE ONE who has a list of European clowns and circuses  and opera companies I want to see.  I’M THE ONE [...]

I went running in the morning, just around the park, just for half an hour.  But, by evening my hip hurt and after googling I think it is bursitis.  That’s not who I think I am.  That’s not how I move in the world. I was multi-tasking, can’t get out of the apartment alone for [...]

What was so disturbing about that woman in the park was the way we didn’t exist to her and yet she felt comfortable telling us to do things (Is she someone accustomed to hired help???)  She never acknowledged us as people. When someone trips and falls in the street, most people kind of freeze until [...]