March 2011
1 post
Tourette Syndrome
I have Tourette Syndrome, and in the 19 years since being diagnosed, I have never met anyone else with T.S.
(Actually, my middle school band teacher was diagnosed with TS years after he taught me - I’d told him so - but because he didn’t think he had TS when I knew him, he doesn’t really count. Also, I spoke briefly with amazingly bad-ass tic-er, Brooklyn City Councilman...
April 2010
1 post
Our Time Theatre Company
Often, I have said that working with Our Time is the best thing I do. And, unlike much of what I often say, I mean it every single time.
Our Time is a theater company that works with young people who stutter, ages 8-18.
I made my way towards Our Time through a series of touching coincidences, all of which began when I was maybe 6, or 7, or 8 years old, growing up in D.C. Thank you, Dad.
I...
March 2010
5 posts
I Read a Lot about Hitler, aka: Fun Fact:
Departing from my new friend Jenet:
I return to my long-time companion, Mr. Hitler. (yes, I read a lot about The Nazis. No, I’m not an anti-semite. For real. Joke’s over.)
Adolf Hitler’s father, Alois Hitler, born Alois Schicklgruber, was born to the unmarried Maria Schicklgruber. When Maria married Johann Goerg Hiedler, fiver years after her son’s birth, Johann raised...
Out Dated, But Still True.
Momma-
I have believed - and have articulated aloud - for some time now, that hillary’s gender is a greater detriment to her candidacy than is barack’s race - mostly because we Americans as a community tend truly not to realize that gender still IS a driving force in our ideological, political, familial, political make-up. As is race, fer damn sure, but we still tend to feel far more...
A "Fun Fact"
8/24 Fun Fact
Okay, I think this one is really cool. So: Olivia Newton John’s mother was the daughter of a German Nobel Prize-winning physicist who left Germany with his wife in the 1930’s because the Nazis didn’t like jews. Way to go Mr Newton/Mr John. On the other branch of her family tree: Ms. Newton John’s father came from Wales and, as an officer during the War, was...
"ETHNIC"
Hey Shmei- Well, if we’re setting aside for the moment my belief that the labels of “good”, or “bad” are irrelevant and useless (thanks michael krass…): I don’t like the use of the word “ethnic” to desrcibe ANYTHING. food, people, aesthetics (“she has a really ethnic look), language, dialects, neighborhoods… because it...
