We were in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania this weekend.  It’s not at all like Brooklyn. The biggest lifestyle difference was driving everywhere.  There were things that reminded me of Montana where I grew up and Nebraska where my parents grew up, historic places and times where and when we could go around on our bikes by ourselves [...]

At the playground today, some kids, including mine, played an assortment of made up games with a deflated purple basketball that had a hole big enough to use as a handle.  I can’t say that I openly encourage such “creative” play, but when I see it happen I do my best to slide into the [...]

I miss those days when the Republican would win again and we would shake our heads and be depressed for a while and then move on because it really was just politics and budgets.  Then Gore won the election but George Bush II ascended to the Oval Office and WTO happened, and 9/11 happened, and [...]

Yesterday I received an e-mail, forwarded to me by Kendall Cornell.  The Women’s Theatre project was papering their Off-Broadway house for a play about a clown.  So I went.  It was a much nicer theater than the ones I usually get to play.  The stage was large and the grid was jam-packed with lighting instruments. [...]

Sometimes I have dreams that are so clear and simple that when I wake up I am surprised that it didn’t really happen.  This morning I awoke after one such dream. I was sitting in a booth in a dark dive bar in Williamsburg with friends looking at a 4-page color pull-out section of the [...]

I spend quite a while yesterday morning online researching Sarah Palin’s racism both overt and implied.  So this evening on the subway when My Kid asked me what color Obama was… I immediately started going through the Rolodex of my mind searching for facts I could tell her about his white mother from Kansas and [...]

Last night, My Kid was watching “The Wizards of Waverly Place” on the Disney Channel (where the characters are drawn with such a broad brush one has to do a double-take just to register that the show is live action and not a cartoon).  The main character and her friend had an encounter with the [...]

I caught a few minutes of “The View” today.  Elisabeth Hasselbeck is one of the hosts.  She used to host “The Look For Less” on the Style Network.  It was a show about  shopping and makeovers for ordinary people on a budget, copying runway style in preparation for a special event.  I watched it a [...]

   Dear American:I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you [...]

After college I left Montana to find work.  A year or two later I desperately wanted to return home but couldn’t find a job that covered rent.  While visiting my then boyfriend at his father’s home on Flathead Lake, we went out to a bar.  I was introduced to one of his father’s friends, one [...]