Conversation turned to who we used to be: beautiful young women.   Now we are getting used to being invisible in public.  Some of us are tired mothers with altered bodies and neglected wardrobes.  We no longer attract attention of strange men on the street.  Online dating sights are full of men our own age [...]

While I was running errands yesterday I went into the Barnes & Noble on Court Street and came across an interesting book.  It’s called The Dancing Plague, The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness, by John Waller.  Full of footnotes, the book must have begun as an academic paper.  It describes a woman in [...]

Watching the clock…  How much can I get done before I have to leave?  I have two and a half hours before I have to leave for the theatre.  My Kid has Robotics after school today and The Husband is planning to leave work early to pick her up, so I don’t have to leave [...]

Watching So You Think You Can Dance and thinking about the clown show. “That was not good.”  ”You didn’t bring it in personality.”  ”Prove to the judges that you’re good enough.”  ”That was not strong enough”.  ”We would like you to fight for you life today.”   “Show the judges that I am here to [...]

Darn!  10:00pm and I still don’t have my NYCMOMS blog post up.  I feel I need The Husband to oversee to make sure I do it right.  But, At Target, My Kid saw the game of LIFE and really wanted it…and since she was such a good girl at the doctor’s office and got her [...]

involving earthquake, fires, refugee camp and me as a clown.

On Friday I took my bags of costumes with me to drop-off at My Kid’s school because from there I went straight to rehearsal.  After rehearsal and went right back to My Kid’s school.  Dismissal was over and the woman with whom I’d made previous arrangements to pick up my kid after school along with [...]

I dreamed I was at a clown conference at Seattle Center.  There were high profile stage and circus clowns teaching workshops including the man who had been director of clown college when I was there. There were inspirational clowns who worked with sick orphans in Africa.  I was excited to be talking to former CC [...]

I feel so much more comfortable now that the rehearsals have taken the on the shape of theatrical rehearsals.  The goals and hierarchy and priorities are clear.

And… if you have some plastic flowers, strings of fake pearls or rhinestones, overly sweet stuffed animal — or a large ugly Toad — perhaps you could bring it for a Positive/Negative prop.  Or fake legs for the gore fabric… Hey child of mine do you have any stuffed animals we could use for the… [...]