Laila Tov VeHashem Yevarech

It's way past time for bed. I am preparing and procrastinating and worrying and enjoying and yawning and resisting and giving way and heading toward sleep.

A memory just popped in my mind - visiting Aunt Selma in the hospital when I was in ninth grade and reading a Woody Allen interview in The New York Times Magazine in the back seat of the car on the way from M.T.A. to Columbia Presbyterian. Woody said something that has stayed with me, he said that he had it harder than some other comedians. He said all most comedic actors had to do to get a laugh was put a ping pong ball in their mouth. On the other hand he said that for him to get the laugh he had to swallow the ping pong ball. That hit a chord for me at 14.

Our fears do make us traitors -

William Shakespeare