I got a text message from the babysitter of my daughter’s friend, she was running 15 or 20 minutes late and could I pick up the twins after school. OK, I responded. It was not big deal.  If the sun is out and there are no lessons or sports practices to rush off to,  the [...]

I dreamed I was at a clown conference at Seattle Center.  There were high profile stage and circus clowns teaching workshops including the man who had been director of clown college when I was there. There were inspirational clowns who worked with sick orphans in Africa.  I was excited to be talking to former CC [...]

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 [...]

Saturday 8/8/09   Last Day Up and awake and watching Discovery Network Shark Week.  The clock is ticking.  Today is our last day together in Seattle.  Tomorrow The Husband returns to work in New York City and My Kid and I continue on to two weeks with My Parents in Montana.  Last year the husband [...]

I felt so good, stretched out, open and exercised after two days in the studio with Dody DiSanto who taught a Neutral Mask Intensive here in New York this weekend.  An inspirational teacher, she is considered by many to be the best neutral mask teacher in America.  It was a class filled with two dozen [...]

People can’t usually tell my religion by looking at me.  I don’t wear a hijab, the Muslim head scarf or a wig like certain Jewish women.  But, I identify with these women and feel  self-conscious discomfort on the one day a year I wear a big sign on my forehead that says “I’m Catholic.” I [...]

  I just got home from rehearsal at the Producers Club.  I had to take my kid with me, bribing her with the promise of a McDonald’s Happy Meal in Times Square if she was good.  She only disrupted once, when she was running up the aisle and fell and scraped about 5 inches of [...]

I saw Gypsy on Broadway today! OK I think I myself was completely warped by playing “Dainty June” in a UM Summer Stock production of Gypsy.  My  New York stage clown friends frequently try to get me to stop being “ON” in front of an audience and I realize now there was some feeling of [...]