Sometimes I have dreams that are so clear and simple that when I wake up I am surprised that it didn’t really happen.  This morning I awoke after one such dream. I was sitting in a booth in a dark dive bar in Williamsburg with friends looking at a 4-page color pull-out section of the [...]

   Dear American:I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you [...]

In her book, used by nonprofit workers, “The Ask: How to Ask Anyone for Any Amount for any Purpose,” Laura Fredricks presents “The 10 Guiding Principles For Any Ask.” Using the guiding principles as a “road map” for all your asks, she wrote, will make you “ready, focused, and energized to ask for gifts in [...]

After rehearsal, we came back to the apartment, Lorraine got to work  and I had a few minutes to check e-mail, then I had to go get on the train to go pick up My Kid at school by 3:00 o’clock.  I was a little late, but I slowed myself down even further when I [...]

Today Lorraine is building the shadow puppet frame. We just got back from the hardware store where Lorraine had planned to have them cut the wood she selected her, but it was $2 a cut, and she needed about four cuts so it would have cost more than the lumber which was only about $3. [...]

Idle chat turned to real estate during rehearsal, something that didn’t matter before we became parents and found out we don’t live in good school districts. We were leafing through the glossy New York Family magazines available in the lobby of the Manhattan Children’s Theatre, there in Tribeca. They were full of ads for multi-million [...]

Despite having a good time on the 4th of July I spent a good percentage of the next day filled with anxiety and stress.  I should have felt good that I had just had a paying gig, but then I watched re-runs of “I Love Lucy” with my kid and instead of enjoying them I [...]