The famous circular rotunda of the Guggenheim art museum was completely empty.  That’s not something I would normally pay to see, but I went to the Tino Sehgal exhibit with my mom hat on because one of the neighbor kids is in it.  After I got there and walked through the experience I realized how [...]

My favorite Oscar moment was watching Kathryn Bigelow on stage when The Hurt Locker won Best Picture.  She held her two Oscar statuettes in her hands like a pair free weights and kept wandering away from the microphone and out of camera range to the point that screenwriter Mark Boal grabbed her arm and held [...]

This month as my mind wanders while I do laundry, and dishes and go to the gym and shuttle My Kid to Girl Scouts, soccer, and ballet and write my little mom blogs, I will imagine what it would be like to be clowning in Barcelona: The 2nd one month “Clown Master Class and Comic [...]

We were talking about  Broadway shows we’d like to see.  I think My Kid should see The Miracle Worker or Billy Elliot. In the family evening vs couples date equation where we may as well bring My Kid since a babysitter costs more than a ticket, I could stand to see the old classics; South [...]

It’s 10 am and I’ve gotten my kid off to school, I’ve shined my sink the way FLYLADY says to and I’ve handwritten my Morning Pages the way Julia Cameron suggests, I’ve researched, composed and sent e-mails regarding potential solo performance options and now I’m sorting laundry.  Why am I so productive during my alone [...]

After my Pilates mat class I had extra time at the Y thanks to the other mom who took the girls to their ballet at Mark Morris.  I took extra long in the steam room and thought about some clown stuff.  I was going to swim laps but forgot my goggles so I walked down [...]

Thursday evening NEW YORK, NY February 25, 2010 —Because of the snowstorm, the city has decided to postpone parent teacher conferences for junior high and intermediate schools, but Mayor Bloomberg says otherwise, it’s business as usual in the classroom. “Our main objective is to keep our kids in school,” Bloomberg says. “That’s why we have [...]

It’s Monday morning.  The Husband has taken My Kid to school and I have a couple of hours on my own in the apartment before I have to leave for a class.  Because I’m using my laptop to get organized for my day I somehow ended up on facebook where friends were complementing Chris Bayes [...]

I spent most of the day in Manhattan with my kid because there is no school this week and it was a good day to have a midtown lunch date with The Daddy-Husband who works at Rockefeller Center.  We ate noodles at the Sapporo Japanese restaurant on 49th Street (We used to eat at Sapporo [...]

Via facebook I learn of the death of an elementary school classmate. Five days older than me, she will never be the age I am now. The Husband, My Kid and I took the train to Union Square and bought books at Strand. We ate guacamole and drank margaritas at the Mexican restaurant where the plastic [...]