Jango warned us that we would experience a let down after the workshop is over, and it is true.  I am feeling very much alone here in my apartment while My Kid is at school and The Husband is at work.  But, thankfully, I have a performance coming up on Monday to keep my mind [...]

Home, I’m just now in the apartment of my sleeping family, after a day and a night out on the town in the clown world. After an intense 3-day workshop with Jango Edwards that ended with cake and song, we went to an odd venue in Soho for more Jango.  Influential clown people were there, [...]

Around seven a.m. I’m lying in bed going over the assignments for todays Jango Edwards workshp.  Do I have them all.  A song to say, something to wear on my feet but not shoes, a wrapped present, a gag in three… black and or white clothes to wear in the cabaret group piece.  Is there [...]

We were at the playground, with our daughter, who at nine, looks like one of those improbably proportioned tween dolls–all hair, eyes and legs.  She was dressed like one of those dolls too; in a pink shirt, pink pants and pink sneakers with a pink helmet and pink elbow, wrist and knee pads.  As she [...]

I just got an e-mail from Christopher Lueck asking for my bio and picture for the November Downtown Clown Revue.  I’m scheduled to perform ALONE!  I must remember to schedule some studio time for Friday and maybe one other day before it’s too late. I spent some time today exchanging information and confirming the babysitter [...]

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Went to Sloane-Kettering to see a friend today and was there during a visit from the Big Apple Clown Care Unit.  Getting to see Joel Jeske and Audrey Crabtree in action–priceless!

I am analyzing the way I get dinner on the table, the mistakes I make, the timing that is off, I’m looking at it as a performance which can be improved (or not) with notes.  THAT can’t be healthy!

Outside logic and mathematics, the term “axiom” is used loosely for any established principle of some field.  Hmmm.  Clown Axioms–Clown principles Avener the Eccentric has a list of clown principals on his own website: ©2005 Avner Eisenberg Clown’s job is to make the audience feel things, and to get the audience to breathe. Everyone inhales, [...]

Perfection is elusive, both in performance and in the care and feeding of a family. I’m not even dressed and already I’ve made compromises and mistakes.  I packed My Kid’s lunch in the pink “baby phat” lunch box with a sandwich and a healthy assortment of fruit and vegetable options (although as I write this [...]