The telemarketer didn’t know who I was. Not that I’d ever expect anyone to know who I am, despite my stellar career as a blogging mommy and stage clown. She told me: “Who you know is more important than what you know.” She offered me the opportunity to pay $2500.00 to be a phone-in guest on [...]

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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners.  I wish someone had told me.  All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste.  But there is this gap.  For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good.  It’s trying to be good, it has [...]

It’s rainy and grey outside, so we check the website to see if the games will be cancelled. Nope! ALL GAMES FOR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 WILL BE PLAYED AS SCHEDULED If the games are rained out during the day… parents pls. take down your goals! Have fun! Yeah! My Kid loves to play in the [...]

I’ve just gotten my confirmation for a creative writing workshop that starts next week. It’s an advanced class and I was worried that I wouldn’t be to carve out enough writing time.  But now I can! This is great!

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! [...]