Santa brought My Kid a rola bola!!!

As soon as My Kid woke up this morning she wanted to check the NORAD site to find out where Santa was.  He was in Japan.   Then he was in Korea.  When we checked back later he was in Africa. As he approached South America she began to be uncharacteristically interested in going to [...]

Jimmy Fallon as Neil Young singing Willow Pinkett-Smith’s “Whip My Hair” song was one of the funniest things I have ever seen performed. Why??? Because… It took me two more days to realize that the reason I found it so funny was because Jimmy Fallon as Neil Young + Willow Pinkett-Smith’s bubble-gum pop song = [...]

Ended up at Barnes and Noble on Court Street.  While waiting for My Kid to finish in the children’s section, I read many embarrassingly resonating pages in the book: Stuff White People Like. A couple of hours later I was at a Holiday Party, in a Brooklyn Brownstone, hosted and attended by exactly those people [...]

This morning after the in class demonstrations and shadow boxes and power point presentations, we ended up at Tazza for coffee.  The other mother, one of the ones who was so worried, said hello.  We talked about real estate.  We talked about schools. We talked about the process made us into emotional wrecks.  Maybe it [...]

Red and white peppermint-striped fingernails. Mistletoe. Elf hat. Green eye-shadow. Red lipstick. Frown. I came home really excited tonight.  Two reasons.  One; the character I am doing at the New York Downtown Clown revue is coming along and has potential, if only for that one particular venue–which is all I ever envisioned for that particular [...]

I read CORNER OFFICE: CATHLEEN BLACK by Adam Bryant in the New York Times this morning. “I am direct and I’m decisive.  I think being decisive for an executive is important.  It doesn’t mean that if it’s not my idea, then it’s a bad idea.  But I believe that most people want clarity from their boss [...]

This was the day, December 17, the day that the NYCDOE Middle School applications were due. There was a 5th grade performance that I just found out about yesterday so I didn’t get an e-mail out about it until 10:30 last night.  Too late for parents who work regular jobs.  Bad class parent. The parent [...]

Over the weekend I learned of a friend who found out her father had cancer and her sister has cancer within a 24-hour period which kind of puts all this stress about the middle school search to shame. And yet there it still is. My friend still has to turn in the triplicate computer application [...]