We toured another public middle school in Brooklyn this morning.  The principal spoke of how privileged the school is to have obtained a grant to buy one portable cart of laptop computers to be shared by all of the children and smart boards for some of the classrooms.  Not every school is given so much. [...]

That’s what I learned today: “Technorati Media is going after lady tech geeks.” And it’s news to me.  Good news! I went on vacation this summer and unplugged for a while and didn’t even know that the blog I wrote for had ceased to exist.  I found out from a stranger on an elevator at [...]

So last night I glued on some long silver mylar zebra print fingernails as a special effect for the New York Downtown Clown Revue in the East Village. And This morning I still couldn’t get them off. So I cut them short with nail clippers. But I’m a little worried about the impression I made [...]

Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg named as his next New York City School Chancellor, a woman who has had the privilege of sending her two children to a boarding school in Connecticut at a cost of over $45,000 per student per year–which is more than the median household income for a family living in Brooklyn.  It’s equivalent [...]