I enjoy rinsing the creme rinse out of my daughter’s hair using a grey plastic elephant shaped watering can that I bought as a prop in South Paris, Maine during that summer when I studied with Avner Eisenberg and Julie Goel back in the last century when Hilary Chaplin and Stanley Allen Sherman were there [...]

Back to school. Back to work. Back to whateveritisthatido.

We ate breakfast then we had to get on the road. We are New Yorkers after all. But first, $10 for half an hour of Segway in a parking lot–worth every penny. On the way home we stopped in New Bedford, Mass to have some Moby Dick moments. And now we’re were back in Brooklyn.

A walk on the beach. The whale watching charter was cancelled because of the fog so clowns with kids went to Bass River Sports World for mini golf and arcade games.  Hey we’re clowns!   It’s all good! A swim in the indoor pool. Tonight is the dressiest night. Dinner. Roasting Steve Smith–like a marshmallow! [...]

It was so great to see and catch up with my RBBB Clown College classmate Lorraine Gilman, now a puppeteer based in Boston, and to learn all about the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity at the reunion hosted by our Clown College classmate Jay Stewart to which I have less than six degrees of separation [...]

We’ve got the rental car. We’ve packed our bags. My Kid has her bear and her doll safely strapped into toy car seats and we are on the road–on the way to Cape Cod for the Clown College Reunion, hosted by none other than the great and powerful Jay Stewart! Wheeeee!

This is what clown is meant to be. So specific and individual some of it inspired by Joel’s gig in Germany and his divorce.  Yet I can watch it and think about graduate school applications and raising children. This is the best kind of clown.

Apparently it was Stanley Allen Sherman’s turn to blog tonight and he had this to say about me: “and Katherine M. Horejsi cleaned up the stage between the acts and set the props. Katherine played a mean, stern, take-no-guff-from-anyone clown. All of her actions were truthful and to the point, and it is the best [...]

And so we come to the end of the first full week of school. I don’t know if I’m ready to breathe a sigh of relief yet but I’m close. My Kid seems to be settling into her new school. Most of the other moms I talked to when we picked up our kids at [...]