What does your child’s school tell her? How do you think she feels? Why should she stay for seven more years? No wonder the drop out rate is so high.

I have Cathie Black’s book, Basic Black, The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life) on my Kindle and read it, while riding the subway each afternoon, on the way to pick up my daughter from her public elementary school.  It makes me nauseous. The thing about Cathie Black, the former President [...]

We toured another public middle school in Brooklyn this morning.  The principal spoke of how privileged the school is to have obtained a grant to buy one portable cart of laptop computers to be shared by all of the children and smart boards for some of the classrooms.  Not every school is given so much. [...]

That’s what I learned today: “Technorati Media is going after lady tech geeks.” And it’s news to me.  Good news! I went on vacation this summer and unplugged for a while and didn’t even know that the blog I wrote for had ceased to exist.  I found out from a stranger on an elevator at [...]

So last night I glued on some long silver mylar zebra print fingernails as a special effect for the New York Downtown Clown Revue in the East Village. And This morning I still couldn’t get them off. So I cut them short with nail clippers. But I’m a little worried about the impression I made [...]

Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg named as his next New York City School Chancellor, a woman who has had the privilege of sending her two children to a boarding school in Connecticut at a cost of over $45,000 per student per year–which is more than the median household income for a family living in Brooklyn.  It’s equivalent [...]

Following at a semi-invisible distance behind the costumed girls, The Husband and I had time to talk to each other.  We wondered if this was our last year of trick-or-treating.  Next year she will be in middle school and may want to attend a party instead. All the little kids were so cute, there were [...]

LOVE THE NEW VENUE–Dixon Place–STATE OF THE ART–sweet!!! I heard that  Jim Moore was the matchmaker who introduced Dixon Place producers to Downtown Clown Revue producers as the run was ending at the old space.  If so, he’s even cooler than I thought. At the bar afterwards that several people said they’d read my blog. [...]

This evening I picked up My Kid from her afterschool First Lego League Robotics program and called a car service to take us to the Planet Green,  Dean of Invention launch party for the new TV show, debuts next Friday at 10 pm as a hip bowling alley in Williamsburg. There was a cute robot [...]

I am beginning to suspect that the middle school search process is designed to keep out the wrong sort of people. We are the right sort of people, the sort of parents schools actively recruit;  a married couple, one in the arts, the other an executive (a potential volunteer AND a potential donor).  We have [...]