While watching the new Disney animated movie, The Princess and the Frog at the Ziegfeld Theatre, and then photographing my daughter next to various Disney Princesses, all of whom were at the Roseland Ballroom afterwards, as part of The Princess and the Frog Ultimate Disney Experience, it occurred to me that the “finally a Black Disney Princess” princess [...]

The meeting started with a viewing on a laptop of some really great still photographs of women clowns on stage by a photographer who was there at the theater. What was clear in the photographs is that we’re fascinating people every one of us and as a group we are amazing. Creative process, generating material, [...]

President Obama made an important speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace today. In my  own small life I wrote a blog post and went to a meeting with the clown troupe.

Well, first of all there was the 9 am soccer game with the trophy distribution picnic afterward… The Husband, My Kid and I went up town to see  the matinee of Spacestation 1985 at the Tank Theater on 45th street because one of my friends was one of the puppeteers. In the evening I went with [...]

My child–who will get another participation trophy for playing AYSO soccer tomorrow morning, was dancing around the room with a plastic Oscar–from when we visited my sister who lives in LaLa Land right before the Academy Award Ceremony, and we saw the mall with the plastic covered Red Carpet ready for the pre-show and we [...]

OK so the frozen Trader Joe’s enchiladas with sides of corn, guacamole and corn chips went over SO MUCH BETTER than that REALLY HEALTHY dinner that other night.  Just sayin’.

Did you ever have a weird new mom dream working out the fears and disbelief that there was actually a baby in your life? Maybe you dreamed you went to your old job and were going out with friends after work completely forgetting that you had a baby…  In mine, I thought I was babysitting, [...]

They’re filming on our street again.  It happens all the time.   We live in a part of Brooklyn that looks and feels like Sesame Street, or the opening shot of The Cosby Show. My Kid won’t even bother to cross the street to check out a film shoot.  In our part of the world, [...]

It’s not a performance I’m particularly proud of.  I did it and that’s something to be glad about.  But I didn’t quite nail it and that’s cringeworthy especially since another clown I know said frequent passing thoughts at the Downtown Clown Revue include: “What are they trying to do???” and “I think I know what [...]

The audience reaction to last night’s production of “Dinner” was tepid at best. The promising evening opened with red wine, but immediately began a downhill descent with the old gag; “Can’t get the broken cork out of the bottle”. The television in the adjoining performance space was a distraction and at one point the entire [...]