I started this blog in the summer of 2018 to document my husband's and my 20th Meetingversary trip to Greece. It was a nostalgist’s pilgrimage on which we tampered with the romance of our memories by bringing two small children! Since moving to New York in 2004, and especially since becoming a mother in 2010, I've had the urge to put my (often intersecting) cultural and mommy experiences into words. More often than not, I find that romance and reality continue to collide and that truth and humor lie where they meet. May you enjoy reading about life as this Cassandra sees it.
Inspired by Benjamin Taylor’s luminous new biography of Willa Cather, which we helped launch at Gotham on 11/18/23, this Thanksgiving week I lectured on Cather’s heartwarming short story, Neighbor Rosicky, written shortly after her father died.
Read MoreIt was an honor to meet Ms. Etheridge after my second viewing of her Broadway show “My Window” for which I launched our Gotham-to-Broadway program!
Read MoreWe had Sparta to ourselves and Athens was soaked—welcome to September in Greece!
Read MoreThe heart of this adventure was our week near Mouratoglou’s new tennis center in Messinia!
Read MoreFive years later, we made it back to Greece!
Read MoreOn the occasion of the retirements of couple Rachel Hadas and Shalom Gorowitz from 40 years of respective service at Rutgers and Ramapo, Gotham threw one heck of a Poetry Party.
Read MoreRead the lecture I gave to an NYU undergrad classics class on Anne Carson’s modern classic “Autobiography of Red” in its 25th year!
Read MoreUlysses is lost again, this time in Harlem. Read about how poet-playwright Marcus Gardley put a twist on this epic tale to find its emotional core through the lens of Black American history.
Read MoreArtistic Director of six years John Doyle bids farewell with Terrence McNally’s Oscar Wilde-inspired musical A Man of No Importance at Classic Stage Company.
Read MoreA new Broadway-bound musical of the popular 2006 film, now in Chicago, aims to honor the original while probing its psychological complexities for a different age.
Read MoreClimb abord our little family’s maiden voyage to Paris, a precious moveable feast.
Read MoreRead about our return to my French hometown and our fortuitous extended stay!
Read MoreI can’t imagine how 48 hours could contain more inspiration and joy, exceeding our highest expectations, than our weekend in Arles.
Read MoreWe found ourselves in the best of hands in this Catalan country, where after four centuries the culture is still peaceably torn between France and Spain.
Read MoreAfter multiple leaps of faith, we are finding ourselves in translation. Enjoy Chapter 1 of Camp Cassandra’s immersion stint abroad!
Read MoreJoin me on my children’s maiden voyage to France for five weeks of adventure and immersion, starting in la belle Barcelona!
Read MoreDuring the trial of Derek Chauvin, I finally put into words my complicated reflection on how it felt to be home near Minneapolis after George Floyd died at Chauvin’s hands.
Read MoreAfter not having left NYC for more than two weeks in 16 years, the pandemic forced our family out of New York for six months of soul-searching. The majority of our time was spent in my childhood home, making for a “reverse study abroad” filled with revelations about country and self.
Read MoreI couldn’t start a new year of theatre-going without looking back on 2019’s artistic highlight. Catch the last two weeks of Oklahoma! if you can, or enjoy reading about my (unorthodox) maiden voyage with one of musical theatre’s crown jewels. Happy MMXX!
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