Clownmommy

Do you want to be an actress, My Kid?
Barely perceptible nod, “no”.
Do you want to be a dancer, My Kid?
Barely perceptible nod, “no”.
Do you want to be an engineer?
Big smile. Big nod to the affirmative.

I am so happy, so relieved, so hopeful. I cried. I have never felt this way about a president. One of our own. Much is being made of the color of his skin and that is an inspiring first. But this is a president of my generation. Someone who [...]

I was a nervous wreck all day. My Kid was home from school so I wasn’t able to hike around the city checking out the energy of the lines outside the polling places. I can go walkabout on my own, but My Kid requires a destination.
Finally, around 6 pm I got her on [...]

My kid is happy as a clam to watch Sponge Bob and eat Halloween candy on this day off from school due to Election Day.  Before I found out there was no school, I thought I would work off my Obama waitin’ nerves walking around Brooklyn and Manhattan checking out the lines at various polling [...]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x5F-sXW6tCM&feature=related

I’m not surprised that the New York City Department of Education failed to increase the number of minority students in gifted and talented program; http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/nyregion/30gifted.html.  The program was obviously created by a man used to working in an office with a staff, not a mommy juggling school and work and family and HOLIDAY obligations.  
I am [...]

Yesterday there was a rather spectacular shooting in a beauty parlor near our “home subway stop”.  One of the injured innocent bystanders happened to be an off-duty cop, a female, shot in the leg while sitting in a salon chair having her hair done.
In the blogosphere there is some criticism of this off-duty officer for [...]

From a photo essay in the New Yorker