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. [...]

We saw the movie hours ago this afternoon but we are still talking about it.  We’re googling Julia Child and an actor friend from our Annex days– Julia Prudhomme (we never knew she was related to Julia Child! ).  We have less than six degrees of separation from this movie in several directions:  Julie Powell [...]

name address  Brooklyn, NEW YORK yada yada yada Married/partnered/children/pets YES Years you participated in the Bigfork Summer Playhouse: 1990 Names of productions and roles performed (if you remember). Shy in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Anytime Annie in 42nd Street, the youngest daughter, in the red and white dress while everyone else wore pastels, [...]

I was literally plugging in my laptop so I can check my e-mail from a public wi-fi site (because my parents only have dial-up) when my cell phone rang.  It was Kendall asking if I’ve sent out the e-mail blast asking for donations for the troupe. Yikes I haven’t.  GUILT.  I’m a bad friend.  I [...]

I’m sitting here ALONE  in the bar in the lobby of the Westin, the hotel that looks like a silo, in downtown Seattle.  I have in front of me my laptop which I haven’t touched since we got off the plane and a pretty lemondrop martini.  The Husband took My Kid for a walk so [...]

I have so much faith in Obama that I think the whole Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest fiasco will be cleared up when the police officer, the professor and the President of the United States have a beer together at the White House.  There is no such hope for Shem Walker, a man I never [...]