After an afternoon at the laundromat, I gathered up some Girl Scout Cookies and took the subway to pick up My Kid from school and take her to The Husband’s office at Rockefeller Center. While The Husband and My Kid delivered the cookies to various co-workers I checked out the shelf of free books and [...]

President Obama signed the healthcare reform bill today.  I watched it on CNN.  It’s powerful, emotional and deeply meaningful to me even though I am not in the midst of a health care induced financial crisis. And yet… I have made decisions in my life that dismissed and diluted my creative work because I thought [...]

So I took myself to see a matinee on Broadway, something I think I can do just any old time because I live in New York, but of course I can’t because I do my day to day living in New York. So, since this was likely to be my last free Wednesday afternoon, because [...]

I didn’t do anything Irish and green even though I am. At the STRAND bookstore in Union Square I bought “Wake Up” by Catholic/Buddhist Jack Kerouac and a book on writing by Joyce Carol Oates, also raised Catholic. Because it might be the last Wednesday I don’t have to pick up My Kid until 5:30, [...]

The Husband didn’t put My Kid to bed on time.  She was still awake when I got home after the show and post show socializing late last night.  Needless to say, this mornings get-up-get-ready-get-out-the-door routine was fraught.

I will miss the NEW YORK DOWNTOWN CLOWN REVUE–somewhere I regularly go without My Kid…

SUCCESS!!! When will I learn that the less I do the funnier I am? …the less I TRY… So many people, that I know, came up to me afterwards and told me they didn’t recognize me until at least halfway through the show. Strangers complimented me on staying in that particular character through out the [...]

3:45 am.  The first time I woke up in the night afraid that we had overslept. 6:00 am the alarm went off.  It felt like 5:00 am because it would have been 5:00 am if this were not the designated “spring forward” Daylight Savings Time. Shower.  Dress.  Consume instant coffee.  Make banana smoothie for breakfast [...]

After I bought my wiglet in Fulton Mall, for my appearance, Monday, at the Downtown Clown Revue, I had a wave of fear that I might offend someone even though I am not ambitious about my performance and I’m not going to say anything. I’m just presenting a character sketch.

Last NY Downtown Clown Revue Mar 15 Posted March 12, 2010 Note: After four successful years, the NY Downtown Clown Revue is closing after the Golden Nose Awards are announced in April. See the bottom of this post for an explanatory announcement. Posted as, and when, received. Join us for the LAST Clown Revue this [...]