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Mom Theatre Blogger: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Show Review by Jo Mispel
November 5th, 2015
We made it to the beautiful old theater space that is the New Victory Theater on 42nd Street in Manhattan with just enough time to take hold of a kid’s booster seat. We were here to see the Isango Ensemble’s production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. My niece, who is ...
Gift Cards or Nothing: an Election Day tale by Pamela Francis
November 4th, 2015
My 13-yr old recently told me who to vote for. I know it's "for whom to vote", but as I intimated in last Wednesday's blogpost, it's open season on grammar and usage in the English language, so... dangling participle it is. In any event, he told me that his friend's grandparents ...
BOOK EXCERPT: Geezer Dad by Tom LaMarr
November 2nd, 2015
GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS (excerpt from Chapter One of Geezer Dad) If it wasn’t the boldest decision anyone ever made, it was big for us. After years spent discussing, debating, and generally overthinking our options, we would stop trying to not have a baby. We would place our fate in nature’s ...
A Curve Ball Lobbed at Me from Left Field by Jean Marie Keenan-Johnston
November 1st, 2015
Today has not gone as planned. Heck, life hasn't gone as planned for months and months at this point, so why should today be any different? (giggling to myself). I had an incredible idea for what I wanted to write about. Writer's block has been an unwelcome friend these past ...
Mother/Son Tween Travel to London by Robin Gorman Newman
November 1st, 2015
My son, Seth, 12, has developed a fascination with all things British. I'm not quite sure where this ardent interest came from, but we used it as impetus to plan a family trip this past August. My husband was unable to take the time off from work, so it became ...
Top Fun at the Big Top: Show Review by Jo Mispel
October 29th, 2015
Taking early leave of a Halloween gathering, my Luke Skywalker five year old son, baby sister and I headed excitedly to our first Big Apple Circus. With distant memories of my own childhood, I was looking forward to my son experiencing the immediacy of a classic circus show, but without ...
The death of “An” and other “tragedies” of a once literary society by Pamela Francis
October 28th, 2015
A former sign captain at our neighborhood Home Depot once told me that if anyone in the store asked him to jump on a forklift and maneuver a 2-ton pallet of sod grass, or pick up a jigsaw and make an intricate cut into a 3"-thick piece of plywood, he'd ...
Mom Theatre Blogger: Clever Little Lies: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
October 24th, 2015
After a grueling game of tennis between father and son, Billy weepily confesses to his elderly dad, Bill Sr., that he is having an affair with Jasmine, a 23 year old trainer at his gym, and that he yearns to whisk her off to Hawaii and have some wicked sex ...
A Magical Night by Robin Gorman Newman
October 23rd, 2015
My son has always enjoyed magic, so when we learned of A Taste of Magic, through its dynamic and talented director Kent Axell, we jumped at the opportunity. Kent is a mentalist and magician, with a background in theater and the arts, and a deep interest in philosophy and the sciences. ...
The Upside of Isolation by Pamela Francis
October 21st, 2015
This month marks the third year since I purchased the four tickets that launched my household up out of our beloved desert community in California and into the Southeast. Two of us landed in Georgia into the lap of extended family, and two of us flew into South Carolina to ...
