After the fact, I was shaking.  I had yelled back at her as I left; “Fuck you, my kid’s bleeding!” I didn’t realize how shocked and upset I was until after I did that. We were having an uneventful afternoon in the apartment when the buzzer rang and it was My Kid’s friend. She and [...]

I feel incompetent that I didn’t get a picture into the program.  In the end it doesn’t really matter because I look enough like the two other white women, who are performing in the cabaret on the same night as me, that it doesn’t really matter that I didn’t get a photo of my own [...]

Somewhere between the drama of the Olympic Games and the idiocy of America’s Funniest Videos lies the world of clown.  I’m not getting to watch as much of the Olympics as I thought I would (because my kid is not interested and I’m not going out of my way to sell it.)  I’m not very [...]

I think I can officially say we are in production.  Lorraine and I have sent several e-mails back and forth today about gaps in the outline and which puppets need to be made.  That’s kind of cool.  On the other hand, I played with my kid in the apartment and it looks worse than it [...]

I was anxious to get to the theatre.  I was running late because I had to wait for someone to show up to watch My Kid.  The dressing area was hot and crowded.  My parents were on hand for this important performance.  We thought we had time to grab something to eat before the performance. [...]

So I’m up in the middle of the night and googling the other performers who I will meet at the clown theatre festival and I look up clownlink, which I haven’t read in a while and Adam mentioned my blog and how it petered out just when I got to the part about him, so [...]

Me and My Kid, we didn’t have any plans today. On our first day back from Toronto we were slow to get going day because the rain made for a dark and claustrophobic morning.  My Kid watched the recorded “So You Think You Can Dance Season Finale” while I stretched, read the New York Clown [...]

At the hotel, I picked up Tracy Chevalier’s book “the Virgin Blue” (by the author of “Girl With A Pearl Earring”) and have been reading it on the train. Because I have access to Bluetooth I have access to the internet and because I have access to the internet, I googled Tracy Chevalier http://www.tchevalier.com/students.html and [...]

Finally I have a chance to come down to the lobby of the hotel and post a blog entry. This trip has been about The Husband and his presentation and his continued ability to work remotely while at a conference and also about My Kid who is on vacation, a glorified field trip or whatever. [...]

The show opened last night. The house was small (due in part to the fact that the “undergroundzero” festival of experimental theatre, was moved to the Manhattan Children’s Theatre from Collective:Unconscious space after a sewage leak forced the theater to close.) Kendall said she was told there would be signs and a live person in [...]