Following at a semi-invisible distance behind the costumed girls, The Husband and I had time to talk to each other.  We wondered if this was our last year of trick-or-treating.  Next year she will be in middle school and may want to attend a party instead. All the little kids were so cute, there were [...]

LOVE THE NEW VENUE–Dixon Place–STATE OF THE ART–sweet!!! I heard that  Jim Moore was the matchmaker who introduced Dixon Place producers to Downtown Clown Revue producers as the run was ending at the old space.  If so, he’s even cooler than I thought. At the bar afterwards that several people said they’d read my blog. [...]

This evening I picked up My Kid from her afterschool First Lego League Robotics program and called a car service to take us to the Planet Green,  Dean of Invention launch party for the new TV show, debuts next Friday at 10 pm as a hip bowling alley in Williamsburg. There was a cute robot [...]

I am beginning to suspect that the middle school search process is designed to keep out the wrong sort of people. We are the right sort of people, the sort of parents schools actively recruit;  a married couple, one in the arts, the other an executive (a potential volunteer AND a potential donor).  We have [...]

There is a painful conflict in the minds, hearts and calendars between the women of Clowns Ex Machina committed to developing this small arts organization and the need to run the gauntlet of the New York City school search, for preschool, for kindergarten and for middle school places for our beautiful children who have completely [...]

We had a Clowns Ex Machina photo shoot this morning, in Manhattan, with the famous photographer of variety artists Jim Moore (He was the photographer in the movie Man on A Wire.) He’s so cool.  He’s so nice.  He’s so professional. We had a good time. We were photographed in black and white wearing our [...]

I am always so flattered by what the working-artist babysitters have to say about my train wreck of an apartment.  They say things like “it’s a grown up apartment”  ”a functioning home” and “Pillows!  I aspire to pillows!”  while I am unfortunately preoccupied with thoughts of; Why do we rent a floor through when this [...]

I’m really only operating a week at a time at this point.

I’ve assembled complete pedestrian and clown outfits for the photo shoot on Sunday.   I still need to think about make-up and a few minor repairs (missing buttons, tube of lipstick…)  But, I’m pretty much ready for Sunday. We’ll have to dressed and ready to go out the door well before 9:oo am ON A [...]

It’s about an upcoming rehearsal schedule…