In a NYT article about the lack of strong leading women roles on Broadway this year, producer Arielle Tepper Madover said she worried that the dearth of great female-centered work remains partly due to family responsibilities for women, who are reluctant to sacrifice nights and weekends to rehearsals or leave their children behind to produce [...]

So while My Kid is otherwise engaged with her piano teacher and lesson, I am looking at the blogs of the other moms who will be attending the brand/blogger event tomorrow and I am intimidated.  That’s nothing new.  I’m easily intimidated like by people from New York–and I live in New York–so it’s just something [...]

Carol Burnett was on the Leonard Lopate show today.  She talked about coming to New York and living at The Rehearsal Club, the real life role model for the boarding house in the movie “Stage Door”.  Of course it no longer existed by the time I was an aspiring actress.  I didn’t come to New [...]

My jaw is sore and I don’t know why.  Perhaps I am tense.  We flew the red-eye between Seattle and New York between Saturday night and Sunday morning. There was an e-mail from AYSO saying there were more kids than coaches and unless some parents stepped up and volunteered and registered for coach or referee [...]

While visiting with a friend who has recently moved to New York, I remembered how hard it was for me to do. Family events have taken the wind out of her sails. 9/11 did that for us and for everyone. But, those who stay on and survive. They become New Yorkers.

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 [...]

We were talking about  Broadway shows we’d like to see.  I think My Kid should see The Miracle Worker or Billy Elliot. In the family evening vs couples date equation where we may as well bring My Kid since a babysitter costs more than a ticket, I could stand to see the old classics; South [...]

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 [...]

It’s Monday morning.  The Husband has taken My Kid to school and I have a couple of hours on my own in the apartment before I have to leave for a class.  Because I’m using my laptop to get organized for my day I somehow ended up on facebook where friends were complementing Chris Bayes [...]

Ever since The Husband started working at Rockefeller Center I have been shopping regularly at the Tristan store conveniently located in his building.  I went there because it was in his building and it was a good place to pass the time when he was delayed in meeting me for lunch.  But, I discovered that [...]