As it happened I spent a lot of time on subway trains today and from the available reading material in my bag I ended up reading the articles “Transfigured” about the writer Muriel Sparks in the April 5, 2010 New Yorker and this week’s New York Times Magazine cover story “M.I.A.’S AGITPROP POP” about the [...]

Today My Kid told me that the Urban Assembly School Of Math and Science for Young Women is her first choice and  NEST (New Explorations into Science, Technology & Math) is her second choice.  She’s nine! Yikes! Why doesn’t she want to audition for the public school for dance or one of those schools that [...]

I found the website of an arts consulting group online, entirely unrelated to anyone I’ve ever met or have any intention of meeting. So today, (while waiting for the landlord and the exterminator to stop by to spray for cockroaches in advance, and as a precaution… haven’t seen one yet, knock wood… but the weather [...]

Full disclosure: we got free tickets. But, it is likely I would have gone anyway, and taken my offspring–even though the posters in the subway did nothing to endear me to this edition’s apparent theme of eggs and bugs. OMG, can I tell you how cool it is to get free tickets to a Cirque [...]

With my mind still full from the New York City Moms Blog Brand & Blogger Symposium, I am excited to learn that Clowns Ex Machina is working with  Vani Krishnamurthy, an arts consultant who graduated from the Harvard Business School. Today, it seems that both my blogging and my clowning are developing in a slick [...]

I made sure and charged the battery to my camera, but I didn’t think I charged it long enough.  My Kid had her open (for parents to watch) ballet class at the Mark Morris dance studio today.  So after school I picked up my kid and walked with her friends and their babysitter to their [...]

In a NYT article about the lack of strong leading women roles on Broadway this year, producer Arielle Tepper Madover said she worried that the dearth of great female-centered work remains partly due to family responsibilities for women, who are reluctant to sacrifice nights and weekends to rehearsals or leave their children behind to produce [...]

So today I attended my very first ever mommy blogger event in Tribeca. There was a red carpet for us to walk on. How fun is that?

In the studio we work in silly clothes and red noses.  At the gym I wear sweats which I then wear to after school pickup.  If I’ve been cleaning or grocery shopping or writing at home I’m in jeans and any old shirt with my hair pulled back. Yesterday I left the clown jam early [...]

I did enjoy being told that I was part of a powerful group of women, both economically and politically. I promise to use my blogging power for good. The roundtable discussion about blogging and branding and that was pretty interesting.  I haven’t been involved in a discussion about getting paid for the work that we [...]