There is a painful conflict in the minds, hearts and calendars between the women of Clowns Ex Machina committed to developing this small arts organization and the need to run the gauntlet of the New York City school search, for preschool, for kindergarten and for middle school places for our beautiful children who have completely [...]

We had a Clowns Ex Machina photo shoot this morning, in Manhattan, with the famous photographer of variety artists Jim Moore (He was the photographer in the movie Man on A Wire.) He’s so cool.  He’s so nice.  He’s so professional. We had a good time. We were photographed in black and white wearing our [...]

I am always so flattered by what the working-artist babysitters have to say about my train wreck of an apartment.  They say things like “it’s a grown up apartment”  ”a functioning home” and “Pillows!  I aspire to pillows!”  while I am unfortunately preoccupied with thoughts of; Why do we rent a floor through when this [...]

I’m really only operating a week at a time at this point.

I’ve assembled complete pedestrian and clown outfits for the photo shoot on Sunday.   I still need to think about make-up and a few minor repairs (missing buttons, tube of lipstick…)  But, I’m pretty much ready for Sunday. We’ll have to dressed and ready to go out the door well before 9:oo am ON A [...]

It’s about an upcoming rehearsal schedule…

I just interviewed a new babysitter.  As I write this I think, “Darn  why didn’t I ask her about her late evening availability?”  I was so busy thinking about our regular schedule and what would I like to get done if I didn’t leave the apartment at 2:30 to pick up My Kid from school [...]

While running a small print job as class parent, I was reminded of the difficulty I had with clerical tasks last fall while we were putting together the show Clown Axioms. Then as now, I made a special trip home in the middle of the day just to print something out and I had about [...]

I just looked at  a couple of modest apartments for sale on the Cocoran real estate website and now I feel a kind of ill.

I woke up last night at 2:00 am.  I couldn’t get back to sleep so I got on my laptop and googled and re-googled Insideschools reading the reviews of District 13 middle schools that my daughter is eligible to attend.  I thought about the school I toured yesterday —the school that appalled the mothers from [...]