I’m glad My Kid is not yet a tween. That would be tiresome.  I thought she would be interested in the local preparations for the VH1 DIVAS special was filmed just down the street at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).  For two days blockades have been going up and by 4:00 yesterday flocks of [...]

07/30/09 I’m drinking my coffee and trying to pull my brain together to get My Kid and I packed and ready to go.  The Husband is packed and working.  My Kid is still sleeping. I’m counting the hours and looking around the apartment listing what needs to be done.  It’s 9 am.  We need to [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday after the matinee, I decided to walk across Central Park and go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by myself (instead of meeting up with The Husband and My Kid to see the new movie “Bolt” with the voice of Miley Cyrus.  My Kid needs to see it opening weekend.  Me I can wait…) [...]

As My Kid watches the annoyingly juvenile “Disney Channel Games”, I can’t help but think of the people who made such a big fuss about Miley Cyrus and her too adult Vanity Fair photo shoot—so that she was forced to pull out of this age-appropriate summer campy televised activity. She seemed to genuinely enjoy being [...]