This afternoon just after I had climbed the stairs hauling my cart full of clean clothes from the laundromat my friend called. She was in the neighborhood because she was going to a reading at Irondale. I had an hour before I had to pick up My Kid from dance class at Mark Morris so we met for a beverage at a table in the sun and talked about New York Magazine’s ranking of our respective neighborhoods. I was able to join her for the reading of Barbara Wiechmann’s play, The Holy Mother of Hadley New York. It was good AND my friend and I ran into another friend we both knew when we all lived in Seattle who has recently moved to New York and works for RipeTime, “a theatre company devoted to producing ensemble driven theatre infused with rich language, visual power and physical rigor”. How cool is that!