December 17 was the Deadline for Families to Return Middle School Choice Applications in All Districts.  We turned in the forms and after that there was nothing we could do.  So we had Christmas and we had New Years.  Now the kids are back in school and the respite is over.  I got an e-mail [...]

I’m so grateful for the opportunity to see Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch play A Little Night Music before it closes.  To watch mature women take the stage with such skill is a gift.  I was eager to get home to compare today’s program to the one from the Catherine Zeta-Jones Angela Langsbury version I [...]

WOW! Just saw the film Up In The Air for the first time. Didn’t expect… So subtle. So real. So “of the moment”. No wonder it was such a presence at the Academy Awards last year. and the George Clooney character who reminds me of my brother (as well as the Jason Bateman character and/or [...]

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 [...]