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 [...]

I spent so much time with clowns and art this week that when the younger single people sitting at the table in the diner after the late night Clown Lab after Downtown Clown Revue  started talking about putting their tapes together to apply for the upcoming Cirque du Soleil auditions I thought I was one [...]

I am so happy, so relieved, so hopeful. I cried. I have never felt this way about a president. One of our own. Much is being made of the color of his skin and that is an inspiring first. But this is a president of my generation. Someone who was a child in the 1970′s [...]

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 think I can officially say we are in production.  Lorraine and I have sent several e-mails back and forth today about gaps in the outline and which puppets need to be made.  That’s kind of cool.  On the other hand, I played with my kid in the apartment and it looks worse than it [...]

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 [...]