So while I was putting together some costume pieces for tomorrow I was singing the song “Anatevka” to myself.  It’s from A Fiddler on the Roof .  I don’t know what that was about.  I have been in two different productions of “Fiddler”…  Nope, still don’t know what it could mean. We’ve got studio time [...]

Here I am piddling around with my blog again (avoiding necessary housework) and listening to real writers chat on NPR when my New Years Resolution was supposed to be for me to spend my time with a different kind of, more involved kind of, turn the radio off and think in silence kind of writing. [...]

I was thinking of the comments from an actor who came to the show last night.  He also does some stage clown work.  He’s youngish white male from a traditional background. He was blown away by the female energy he felt coming from the stage.  The thing that is surprising to me is that it [...]

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. [...]

I suppose the grandparents want to know how the little princess spent her birthday.  And incidentally she loves what you sent! It is so easy to produce an extravagant birthday in New York City.  There was one scheduled event requiring the watching of clocks and hoping the trains ran on time.  We attended a matinee [...]

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 [...]

I have been a weepy mess, tearing up  several times a day, ever since Captain Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger ditched a US Airways jet safely in the Hudson River last Thursday. The cinema-cheesy symbolism went straight to my core and I am convinced that the United States of America is an airplane and Barack Obama is [...]

I just got out of the shower, my second today. I didn’t get to the gym, but I allowed myself a nice hot mid-day shower because I am trying to get a handle on all this free-floating holiday stress. As a class parent I am way too anxious about the amount of money we have [...]

I was a nervous wreck all day. My Kid was home from school so I wasn’t able to hike around the city checking out the energy of the lines outside the polling places. I can go walkabout on my own, but My Kid requires a destination. Finally, around 6 pm I got her on the [...]

Last year My Kid joined her elementary school’s robotics team.  They spent the year trying to solve alternative energy challenges using Lego’s. As a child, I too learned about renewable sources of alternative energy –off the back of a truck: This week, My Kid came home with a letter from her First LEGO League coach [...]