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Hi there fellow healthcare clowns and clown nose afficionados!  As the peri-pandemic stretches out, are you wishing for a better way to stick a nose on top of your facemask?  A nose that you can transfer to a new mask when needed?  As clowning while wearing facemasks...

"The Right Brain Develops First ~ Why Play is the Foundation for Academic Learning" I stumbled across this wonderful article by Vince Gowman this morning, still a bit jet lagged state, just home from teaching workshops in Germany.  Play happens to be on my mind as at...

I had the good fortune to be in Paris when the movie "Chocolat" came out last February (2016), which portrays the famous turn of the century clown duo Chocolat et Foottit. To celebrate the release, there was an exhibit on the duo at the Maison des Metallos. here are a...

Not long ago I wrote a post on constructive versus destructive humor focusing in on if the humor was at someone’s expense or globally uplifting. This was before the whole creepy clown phenomenon exploded into the mediascape, internet waves telegraphing the concept to...

The Latest Headline in the Santa Monica (CA) Observer: Terrorist Clown Ring Arrested in Alabama Clown Fears Have Spread Across the South in Recent Weeks Flomaton, Alabama police have taken one adult and two juveniles into custody in connection with a threat that put...

For those of you following the news of scary clowns in the Carolinas, you can now breathe a  collective sigh of relief as the WXII.12 news reports: Winston-Salem police said Friday that they have determined that a report of a suspicious clown trying to lure...

Another Google alert in my mailbox, links to all the articles that contain the word clown. That word is my nemesis. The prevailing mainstream perception of that word, at least according to the amalgamation of newspaper articles in the anglophone world, is...