Professionalism

Published Date: May 18th, 2010
Category: life

With my mind still full from the New York City Moms Blog Brand & Blogger Symposium, I am excited to learn that Clowns Ex Machina is working with  Vani Krishnamurthy, an arts consultant who graduated from the Harvard Business School. Today, it seems that both my blogging and my clowning are developing in a slick [...]

Wednesday Matinee

Published Date: March 19th, 2010
Category: life

So I took myself to see a matinee on Broadway, something I think I can do just any old time because I live in New York, but of course I can’t because I do my day to day living in New York. So, since this was likely to be my last free Wednesday afternoon, because [...]

No Snow Day Yes

Published Date: February 26th, 2010
Category: life

Thursday evening NEW YORK, NY February 25, 2010 —Because of the snowstorm, the city has decided to postpone parent teacher conferences for junior high and intermediate schools, but Mayor Bloomberg says otherwise, it’s business as usual in the classroom. “Our main objective is to keep our kids in school,” Bloomberg says. “That’s why we have [...]

Clown Families Riding the Subway to Brooklyn

Published Date: February 17th, 2010
Category: life

I spent most of the day in Manhattan with my kid because there is no school this week and it was a good day to have a midtown lunch date with The Daddy-Husband who works at Rockefeller Center.  We ate noodles at the Sapporo Japanese restaurant on 49th Street (We used to eat at Sapporo [...]

first half creative, second half mommy

Published Date: January 27th, 2010
Category: life

After bodywork I went to Gorilla Coffee with classmates and then, still talking, we went together to look at vintage clothing at Beacon’s Closet on 5th and then I wrote for a while at the Pacific Street branch of the Brooklyn Public Library (the one that always makes me think of a set from The [...]

Technology is Failing Us

Published Date: October 8th, 2009
Category: life

I woke up at 5:30 am worried about  video tapes that have never been transfered to DVDs Tonight after dinner, I wanted to upload a photo of myself to go with my bio for the syndicated blog that I am behind on because I got distracted by the PR for the clown show that opens [...]

UM

Published Date: August 21st, 2009
Category: life

I stopped by the registrar’s office on campus today and orderd copies of my transcripts.  I intend to apply to be a substitute teacher for the New York City public schools.  My Kid is dubious.

Wedding dresses and photo albums

Published Date: August 11th, 2009
Category: life

My Kid and her Girl Cousin have just run in the front door with their dolls; “They’re spraying a house and the lawn of the church.  We had to run all the way to get away from the bad smell!  We held our breath!”  They are perhaps a little too aware of environmental toxins.    [...]

The Last Day of Vacation in Seattle

Published Date: August 9th, 2009
Category: life

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 must have been traumatized by an early data entry experience

Published Date: July 29th, 2009
Category: life

Our home is not large.  Rain is pouring outside.   My daughter has a friend over and she has decided she would like to play in the front living-dining-media-play-room part of the apartment.  So I am relegated to the back bedroom half of the apartment which is fine with me.  I’m listening NPR and writing [...]