Conflict is the name of the game and next Sunday will be no exception.  A Clowns Ex Machina photo shoot has been scheduled for which I have to prepare to be in full make-up with at least two different outfits packed and carried into Manhattan by subway.  No biggie.  I am available for the photo [...]

I just got an e-mail from someone from Planned Parenthood about sex ed in the schools.  I’m all for it and yet it’s not my battle to fight.  Arts funding is higher on my list.  Fresh fruit and vegetables at lunch is higher on my list.  Bringing back recess is higher on  my list.  Math [...]

While I was writing my last post about conflicting feelings, wanting to be on stage full of energy and also focusing on gently nurturing my child, an interview show on WNYC featured Alex Cohen and Jennifer Barbee, talking their new book Down and Derby, Insiders Guide to Roller Derby and I suddenly remembered Nikki Appino’s [...]

This week at the New York Clown Theater Festival I saw Channel One. It made me think of the first couple of shows I did at Annex where the excitement and energy backstage and after the show was just as intense as what happened on stage, under the lights, in front of the audience.  At 30, [...]

I saw the movie Catfish today, unexpectedly.  The Husband and My Kid had just left for school and work and I was finishing my coffee and checking my e-mail when my artistmommy friend called me and said she was going uptown to the 10:00 am showing of the film “Catfish”.  I had intended to spend [...]

I very much missed taking part in the New York Clown Theater Festival today.  However,  I did enjoy laying in bed with My Kid who is down with a cold, watching the movie “Shopaholic” starring Isla Fisher the Lecoq trained actress, that’s CLOWN too!

Is that N_______’s older sister picking her up after school?!  She looks 16 at least.. very sophisticated… jaded even???   Do we want our daughter to look like that when she’s in 7th grade?  Maybe I don’t want My Kid to commute into Manhattan after all—even if it is the best middle school available to [...]