Shiela Callahan’s “Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play” closing tonight at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in the West Village and the 2008 film “Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day” starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams don’t have a damn thing in common except that I saw them both within the same 24-hour period.
S0 these two pieces [...]

still thinking about Sheila Callahan’s “Pretty Pretty; or The Rape Play”.
New Yorker magazine
Coney Island
Our apartment before we bought the air conditioner.
Galaxy Diner 
Pregnant men
Seattle
Annex
Printer’s Devil
L.A. la la land
Husbands
Babies
Writing

So Jef is coming back into town and he wants to remount “Clownical Trials”.  
The other day, I went to the Guggenheim with my daughters entire 3rd grade.  
Last time it was during the first incarnation of “Clownical Trials” at Theatrelab and I thought.  This exhibit is weird.  Jef’s show is weird.  These are my [...]

As part of the
Learning Through Art Program of the
Guggenheim Museum
Third Graders
asked
What is the ideal environment in which we can
grow and thrive?
We looked at environments we knew well: home, school, playground.  We looked at the ways in which Native Americans who lived here 400 years ago valued and used the environment.  We looked at the things [...]

…talking to my visual-artist-mommy neighbor on the train as we escorted our kids home from school–her day went about the same as mine…not done/didn’t get to/not enough time…
Maybe next week we’ll organize taking turns picking up the kids for each other so we can each have an extra hour of work time.

I really do not have as much time as I think I do on a daily basis.  Things always take longer than I think they will.  Time passing is a constant surprise to me–as is the fact that my family needs to eat dinner every day.  (Why aren’t they as satisfied with coffee and protein [...]