So at the end of the clown jam Kendall said she’d talked with Patrick De Valette, lately of Banana Spheel. She said he might come to a clown workshop. I hope it’s one that happens when I’m in town and available.

Well, we made it to the last evening performance of Banana Spheel at the Beacon Theatre on the Upper West Side. It wasn’t as bad as I expected given the rumors.  But, I did find myself thinking, while sitting in the theatre, “God, I do love good book musical!”, which this wasn’t. A  proscenium stage [...]

So I’m all alone in the apartment, straightening the front room getting it ready for My Kid’s piano lesson.  I’ve been such a psycho freak about it that I have driven My Kid and The Husband off to the diner for lunch without me.  I’m feeling that my life is out of control because the [...]

Last night I went to Desert Island in Williamsburg for the release party and signing of Megan Kelso’s newly published graphic novel “Artichoke Tales”.  The Husband and My Kid went to the Strand the day before when she presented with some other graphic novelists but I was in Philadelphia. How cool is it that I [...]

I don’t understand why the powers that be at my daughter’s school think it’s a good idea to let the kids know at the end of the school year which class they will be in.  It was awful, for those of us who are parents, to watch the children come out of the door with [...]

There is something about Brooklyn.  My life was never like this anywhere else I’ve ever lived.  I make a plan for my day, a simple ordinary plan such as I’ll take My Kid to school and then I’ll come home and do some cleaning and some laundry.     But, that’s not what happened.  Instead [...]

It’s going to close on Sunday and I haven’t seen it yet and I want to see it because it’s about clowns and it’s directed by David Shiner who I really admire.  I really will try.  Michael Bongar twittered that Joel Jeske will be playing Smelky at the Wednesday Matinee, but I won’t be able [...]

Jef Johnson and Kendall Cornell will both be teaching workshops in New York this summer. I just got a save the dates e-mail.  Jef has been studying the mind-body connection and so have I.  I became interested in this aspect of the creative process after I got blocked last fall and was able to trace [...]

There is something exciting and charming about beautiful girl children playing soccer and I am so glad that My Kid plays (but not so glad that I’m willing to twist my life around and buy a car so that My Kid can be on a travel team). My Kid was on a great team this [...]