I could have/should have/didn’t post this when it happened on because in my mind there was a lot more to write… Friday May 1, 2009 After spending the afternoon in the studio with Kendall and the clown women I ran my daughters Girl Scout troop through a series of theatre games and some red nose [...]

Last week I read “Home, A Short History of an Idea” by Witold Rybczynski, which is a historical study of the arrangement of furniture and people in private homes from the haphazard collection of family, servants and apprentices who lived together during the Middle Ages through the “conspicuous austerity” of Soho lofts in 1986 when [...]

As I approached my daughter’s school today there was a clutch of babysitters and nannies talking about the Hispanic icy lady who had just been arrested, put in handcuffs, her cart put in the back of the vehicle and taken away by the police.  Some of the babysitter/nannies were wiping away tears as they talked [...]

I had every intention of going into Manhattan to see the Downtown Clown Revue and hang out in a bar with my clown friends after the show.  But, it was so rainy today.  And The Husband didn’t get home until 7:30.  And we hadn’t had dinner yet.  And he brought wine.   And we are [...]

I’m going to eat my Lunchable now!

The bus has a bathroom!!!

My baby, my baby, I put her on a bus and she’s gone to upstate New York she’s gone to overnight camp.  It’s only two night’s less than 48 hours, but my baby’s gone away…  AND she was all like “Mom stop kissing me!”

OK So  It’s Mother’s Day and theoretically I get to choose the family activity  (as there is no evidence that the family has prepared the Mom-gets-to-go-to-a-spa-alone option). So there are two show’s (both closing their runs with a matinee today) that I would like to see/check off my professional tracking other professionals to-do list.  They [...]

We saw the play tonight, a hard won date night, after difficulty finding a babysitter.  But it was worth it. Studio 54 DATE NIGHT!  I love Bill Irwin and Nathan Lane was amazing.  Every line was pitch perfect. We had drinks after at the bar opened and funded by Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick during [...]

I met Erja when our daughters were both in the playgroup at Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Fort Greene.  At the height of our friendship her kids were 3, 8 and 13 attending three different schools.  That seemed to me like a really difficult way to go about having and raising children.  (Though of course all [...]