Sunny Day in New Shmork

You can be a homer at a ballgame but it's hard to do at a poetry reading. Plot and Duck wanted to stand up and cheer for the Great Dance-Nik, maybe even display a banner for the cameras, and certainly cheer obscenely loudly for her when her name was brought up again at the end, but, seeing as they were in the small basement of a cafe in the Village, Dance-Nik would have been embarrassed by such a show of hometown favoritism.

Her poems were great and so were those of many of the other readers. Nothing this time about teeth. It was a fun evening.

Earlier in the day Plot and Duck took Isabella on the wrong day to The Natural History Museum. The Jewish holidays closed all the schools in New Shmork, so every child's caregiver brought him to the museum. It took half an hour just to stand in line and get a ticket, and once inside -- well, Belly just wanted to get outside. She is having a little trouble adjusting to sharing Mom and Dad, but in a few days she'll have her normal routine back.

She knows how to sit on the arm of the subway bench, waiting for the G to the A to the C.