It has taken me a long time to figure out that when we walk in the door at 6:00 pm it is the start of the pre-show for a three hour dinner/homework/bath/bed experience produced by myself, every school night to varying audience reaction. The kid in bed by 9 pm, (hair combed, teeth brushed, book [...]

OK this is totally F%&*#@-up.  There is an e-mail about late fees owed. I know, I know, I totally signed on to the cash fine for being late to rehearsal.  (I was all for extra $$ for cast parties!)  I was late a couple of times. But, I have just spent twice as much at [...]

In a moment of… not solitude exactly –more like nobody is asking me to do anything at this particular moment–I open my laptop to write and it’s full of Disney Channel games My Kid uploaded while I was doing something else!   With apologies to Virgina Woolf, author of the 1929 essay “A Room of [...]

Finally after such a long time I feel happy and relieved after rehearsal. The day in the studio went well.  Kendall told us that even though the show isn’t put together we have all the parts and some good material.  She also said she is aware that some people have reactions to her in a [...]

It’s Yom Kippur, the New York Public Schools are closed so my kid is home.  Even if there was school she would probably home today with a cold.  So here I am with a sunny day, a kid with enough energy to play  and I can’t call anyone for a playdate because she is germy. [...]

OK I’m awake and thinking of the novelty facebook quiz I took last night, what mental illness are you, that told me I was panic anxiety disorder and so now I have awakened in the middle of the night wondering if that is true. Maybe that’s why Kendall is always telling me I look confused. [...]

I ran into Rev. Dyson this morning.  As I was walking past his church, he was taking down the fliers about last nights community meeting about the death of Shem Walker, the man who was shot on his front stoop by undercover cops disguised as drug dealers.  Reverend Dyson said the family was  at the [...]

The morning was a little crazy.  If the routine is interrupted, and it was (by printing the marketing letters for Clowns Ex Machina which I thought would happen last night, but we got home at 10:00 pm after eating out as a family immediately after curriculum night and the middle school informational meeting and My [...]

I just posted a blog and I feel done with my computer time for the day. But, I’ve got some tasks to do for the Clown Axioms production which I fear will take longer than they should because of my shakey clerical skills. I’d better take a refreshing shower and eat some protein and then [...]

The New York Downtown Clown Revue, a monthly late night venue for edgy stage clowns, produced and early evening show for children.  So I took My Kid and a Classmate Neighbor Boy to see the fun. As familiar as My Kid is with the clown genre, she and the boy-she’s-known-since-they-were-in-diapers-but-who-is-not-a-friend-because-he-is-a-boy chose seats for us in [...]