I was literally plugging in my laptop so I can check my e-mail from a public wi-fi site (because my parents only have dial-up) when my cell phone rang.  It was Kendall asking if I’ve sent out the e-mail blast asking for donations for the troupe. Yikes I haven’t.  GUILT.  I’m a bad friend.  I [...]

  Thursday 8/6/09   We had breakfast at Voula’s on Northlake Way–yum–with an old theatre friend who is planning her big move to NYC this fall–Yeah!  I’m looking forward to having this friend in New York.  We’re the same age.  We’re both from Montana.  We’re both actresses.  We both have one daughter (but her’s is [...]

Sometimes the simple things take me so long, like logging onto the internet using the hotel’s wifi connection that by the time I have my Clownmommy dashboard on the screen I forgot what I had intended to write about. I don’t know how much of my “writing time” I wasted hitting buttons and guessing at [...]

My baby, my baby, I put her on a bus and she’s gone to upstate New York she’s gone to overnight camp.  It’s only two night’s less than 48 hours, but my baby’s gone away…  AND she was all like “Mom stop kissing me!”

A couple of weeks ago, I was on the Fort Greene Kids List, which I haven’t checked out in possibly years.  The Husband did something so the posts go directly into a file, because there are so many, and I never have to see them unless I open the file. Well, I was on the [...]

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 [...]

Yes, the New York clown community has its own awards show. Flying under the radar at the Krane Theatre on the Lower East Side, last night, individuals in street clothes, were publicly acknowledged for their contributions to the art form of clown. Before and after the show there was socializing at Phoebe’s bar on Bowery [...]

We went to see Lorenzo Pisoni’s solo show, “Humor Abuse” at the Manhattan Theatre Club last night. It was a touching performance by a man who in the 1970′s was a child clown in the San Francisco based Pickle Family Circus and who as an adult is a serious New York actor. I never saw [...]

People can’t usually tell my religion by looking at me.  I don’t wear a hijab, the Muslim head scarf or a wig like certain Jewish women.  But, I identify with these women and feel  self-conscious discomfort on the one day a year I wear a big sign on my forehead that says “I’m Catholic.” I [...]

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 [...]