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I’m not surprised that the New York City Department of Education failed to increase the number of minority students in gifted and talented program; http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/nyregion/30gifted.html.  The program was obviously created by a man used to working in an office with a staff, not a mommy juggling school and work and family and HOLIDAY obligations.   I [...]

Yesterday there was a rather spectacular shooting in a beauty parlor near our “home subway stop”.  One of the injured innocent bystanders happened to be an off-duty cop, a female, shot in the leg while sitting in a salon chair having her hair done. In the blogosphere there is some criticism of this off-duty officer [...]

From a photo essay in the New Yorker

Last year My Kid joined her elementary school’s robotics team.  They spent the year trying to solve alternative energy challenges using Lego’s. As a child, I too learned about renewable sources of alternative energy –off the back of a truck: This week, My Kid came home with a letter from her First LEGO League coach [...]

We were in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania this weekend.  It’s not at all like Brooklyn. The biggest lifestyle difference was driving everywhere.  There were things that reminded me of Montana where I grew up and Nebraska where my parents grew up, historic places and times where and when we could go around on our bikes by ourselves [...]

At the playground today, some kids, including mine, played an assortment of made up games with a deflated purple basketball that had a hole big enough to use as a handle.  I can’t say that I openly encourage such “creative” play, but when I see it happen I do my best to slide into the [...]

I miss those days when the Republican would win again and we would shake our heads and be depressed for a while and then move on because it really was just politics and budgets.  Then Gore won the election but George Bush II ascended to the Oval Office and WTO happened, and 9/11 happened, and [...]

Yesterday I received an e-mail, forwarded to me by Kendall Cornell.  The Women’s Theatre project was papering their Off-Broadway house for a play about a clown.  So I went.  It was a much nicer theater than the ones I usually get to play.  The stage was large and the grid was jam-packed with lighting instruments. [...]

Sometimes I have dreams that are so clear and simple that when I wake up I am surprised that it didn’t really happen.  This morning I awoke after one such dream. I was sitting in a booth in a dark dive bar in Williamsburg with friends looking at a 4-page color pull-out section of the [...]