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- I forgot the most important line in the post below
- The moonwalk, my father and me
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2012/08/7561/
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December 2011
- Reflections on a New Year
- My last post of the year for Psychology Today
- A letter, a comment, The New York Times
- Latest PT post
November 2011
October 2011
September 2011
August 2011
- Life, Lies and Secrets
- Courting is seven on August 13th; Old enough to think for itself
- A birthday, another city and a flower
- My latest Psychology Today post
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
April 2011
- Good living, Bone, keep it up
- To Phoebe Snow
- The oldest child on the LIRR
- I used to blog here, yes?
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2011/04/6130/
- neither here nor there
March 2011
- No, I can't; yes, I can: oh I'm so confused
- Pia bitches and bitches
- A matter of degrees
- With a whimper
- My fifth PT post
- Childhood dreams: 3WW: dainty; haunting; tantalize
- My upbeat fun post for Psychology Today
February 2011
- On my father's birthday
- My third Psychology Today post--No Mistakes Allowed
- Would have been my father's birthday
- Bitching always bitching
- Esoteric Wombat
- My second post in Psychology Today
- Seeing a picture: part 3
January 2011
- Psychology Today!!!!! And a condensed version of what Courting is!
- Seeing A Picture: Part Deuce
- Seeing a picture
- Some last thoughts on this week--just my last thoughts
- A confession
- A night. A day.
- Identity Crisis
- How I spent New Year's Day Morn
December 2010
- Last Night Cental Park Was Grand--originally posted 01/01/05
- Space Chick with the Electric Hair: an explanation of sorts
- 3WW: educate, object, silence--space chick with the electric hair, a memoir
- A letter to Jon Stewart
- 3WW--dabble, lean, utter: Space Chick with the Electric Hair
- 3WW: judge, nightfall, safety: space chick with the electric hair
- 750 Words--actually 900--letter to a friend; We are the Blenderbusters!!!! Spacechick with the electric hair
- 3WW--demise, effort, revival--space chick with the electric hair
November 2010
- When I was eleven: Space Chick with the Electric Hair
- 3WW--gesture, immediate, treasure--Space Chick with the Electric Hair
- Second coming of summer!
- 3WW--abrupt, kernel, wield; space chick with the electric hair, a memoir
October 2010
- 3WW-fragile, rampant, tremor
- One word--shore
- 3WW: effect, immense, shimmer: space chick with the electric hair: memoir
- The attack of the killer bee
- 3WW--absolve, hiss, ridicule
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2010/10/5047/
- 3WW: Hint, lust, sheen--a chapter from space chick with the electric hair
September 2010
- 3WW engulf, imminent, tamper
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2010/09/4981/
- 3WW--gait, nudge, ripen
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2010/09/4958/
- A tale of two stores
- The Sad Season
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2010/09/4914/
August 2010
- I didn't know I had a yard. Thought I had a lot of rocks and sand! Then I went to work......
- 3WW--grimace, phase, stumble---Space Chick with the Electric Hair, a memoir-- a very small part
- This is my brain on melt
- My sixth blogiversary. 8/13/10 or Friday the 13th... As I had a birthday with the number 6 in it this year.....
- Lucia and Pia walk down Lafayette Street and one of us can't walk without getting into trouble
- This could happen to you...probably not but I like to pretend
- If I were a better blogger
- Fairway, me and the world
- Back in another less innocent time
- Prelude to a hurricane
July 2010
- A day or so
- A diatribe
- Ramblings of a good mind, sort of
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2010/07/4547/
- Something I wrote for RedRoom
- The Affliction of the Gifted
- Lil Red
June 2010
- Finally understand why they call it the long hot summer
- Have you heard the one....
- Pia finally realizes she no longer lives in NY
May 2010
- 3WW: abandon; gradual; precise: fiction
- 3WW: dread; grasp; pacify: fiction
- Marinade Dave--Caylee Anthony
- Then they came for me....
- Witch Trials Today
- 3WW: fear, ignore, weightless
- Tea Parties and Kent State
April 2010
- Crazy, I'm feeling crazy
- 3WW: ebb; negotiate; random: Being Jewish in The Bible Belt
- 3WW: brash; lubricate; saint: You're such a disappointment: fiction
- Miss Frances
- Pia takes a walk in Manhattan
March 2010
- Pia rants and pouts and kind of gives up on certain things
- I have a blog; I have a house and only one comes first
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2010/03/4282/
- On the anniversary of her second year here Pia becomes a real South Carolinian
- Pia attempts to think things out
February 2010
- Something about me
- The Long Cold Chilly Windy Winter
- Snow from my living room, in coastal South Carolina, and my living room
- Running to New Orleans
- Never know if it's me or not
January 2010
- Blogging for love or money
- 3WW: jolt; ribbon; zeal: fiction
- Wives & mothers
- 3WW: Epic; drain; nibble. Fiction: Older not wiser
- Someday....someday's now
December 2009
- A new decade's a coming and here's an old one
- TV issues
- Decade of the blogger
- About me--2010 edition
- Revamping the Vamp
- TMI
- Once, twice, three times a lady
- Shades of Blue
November 2009
- 3WW:Accident, Loyal, obscene: The Family Grove; fiction
- Friends: the one that didn't get away
- 3WW:karma; wither; obey. Fiction
October 2009
September 2009
- My boot camp needs a brand; no my blog needs branding; no I'm going to be my own brand
- Confessions of a TV junkie
- To North Myrtle Beach--city officials, Lions Club and people speaking at the 9/11 thing
- I smelt the Pine Sol and found my future
- I finally understand I own a house and don't have great health insurance
August 2009
- Follow the fellow who follows a dream
- Climbing metaphorical mountains
- Dear Blog
- My five year blogiversary
- A couple of nights on the Upper West Side
- Another day....
July 2009
- Mea Culpa and Thank You
- 3WW: Darkness; patronize; weaken--Monkey on my back; yes I love cliches especially drug ones
- Bless you(r) heart, Miss Pia, you look divine....
- I unpack my last two suitcases and find a mountain to climb out of
- The night I began to become a Southerner
- Happy Birthday America!!!!!!!!!!!
- The muse has dried up
June 2009
- Why I'm just supernaturally calm....
- Just when I think it's safe ....
- The Joint is Jumping
- Paul Krugman on terrorism
- I never said I have anything of substance to say; oh maybe I did...
- Life's a bitch
May 2009
- 3WW: dreary; embrace; timid: fiction: Late Spring of Etan
- 3WW: efficient; optimize; treacherous: fiction "Happy Anniversary"
- I grow flowers
- Almost somewhere
- A house becomes a home
- While on the subject of mothers
- A cab ride and Random observations or something
April 2009
- Look out New York I'm coming*
- Foundation: Wild Fire; day 3
- 3WW: deceit; indulge; oath: Me and Jeffrey part 3; prequel to meeting part 2
- 3WW--allure, perch, vivid: A prequel to meeting Jeffrey
- In Dreams
March 2009
- Hey Daddy, part five
- I moved! And a picture of me from the second era of my life when anything was possible--well a link to
- Wacky Wednesday weirdness--blame it on the full moon....
- Hey Daddy--part four
- I'm officially a Redneck!
- Avenge, genuine, ramble---3WW fiction
- On West End Ave; a cold snowy Monday in early March--fiction
February 2009
December 2008
November 2008
- They say there's no such thing as an original idea but I thought of it first
- Uh, I bought a house
- I made a mistake; such a big mistake
- Sometimes it hits me
- And people wonder why I love Paul Krugman
- Finally, Election Night, revised from the streets of the Upper West Side
October 2008
- We're all election weary
- Around The NY Times and other things with Pia
- Beginning a new life
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2008/10/2419/
- Sign Sealed Delivered
- New York during a heat spell last spring
- OMG: this is my last weekend as a UWS'r
- Go Obama!!!!!!!!
- For Jacquelin
- I nominate*****
September 2008
- Your Day Awayâ„¢ 2008
- If I am chopped liver I would hope I'm the vegetarian kind
- The largest political rally in the history of Alaska...
- Days before a full moon
- False Beauty; real beauty: Or; Plans? You still believe in plans and planning? Silly goose you
- Seventeen years ago; then seven; now today
- Palin is personal
- Courting no trouble
- The battle cry of the no longer popular blogger
- We're too damn complacent; don't let them win*
- 3WW: awry, blame, hiatus
- Teenage love/pregnancy
August 2008
- My Intelligent Design Post--originally posted on 8/27/05
- Obama more than ever
- God's Country Tours and complaints
- Five years ago today
- 3WW: river, intimate, view
- Bad Blogger--me, not the blogging platform
- I want to believe
- Another Friday night
July 2008
- 3WW: gamble, omitted, temporary: temporary measures
- Oh off with their heads or it's not too late to impeach
- About the bed slut and North Myrtle
- My father introduced us to a trailer park
- 3WW: avoid; class; stick: The Beach Slut
- Something--teaching white men to dance since 1862
- A post with no name; a country without morals
- Honestly.....
- Makeover!!! & Friend of the Devil
- Music to lose money and have a breakdown to
- 3WW: inappropriate; order; shortcut: Not An NLD Blog
- Bush bashing fatigue blues and other codas
- Near but not too close to the street I live on to Yankee Doodle Dandy
- My defenses working overtime; revised
- Not just clumsy; odd girl out
- 3WW: Indifferent; pour; reason: Eventually everything gets put into Spam; part two: fiction
June 2008
- 3WW--rumor; shake; spontaneous:Eventually everything gets put into Spam--fiction
- A warm and fuzzy family memory brought on by George Carlin's death
- In the city
- Parts of a Weekend
- Mother never said there would be surreal days; crazy ones yes
- Me and Obama smoking together
- Rip Current
- A phone call
- 3WW: change; dizzy, key
- Life is Good, really
- 3WW: Deny, smile, uncomfortable: Sex & The City; a sort of critique
- Breaking the rules once more.
May 2008
- A letter I wrote to the New York Times that was automatically rejected
- My apartment better sell for the lowered price
- 3WW: blurred, illegal, match: fiction: Dinah's journey
- This is my year
- 3WW: Delayed, edge, focus; at the edge
- Just another blogger spewing much verbiage
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2008/05/2232/
- 3WW: Average, neck, scratch: New beginnings; don't count me out. Take me seriously
- Wouldn't it be nice?
- My personal god--Felix Royahtn
- Rent, sales and Beach Boys
- Ferocious, she would call her love
April 2008
- Writer's Island:Then she found me; completion--after I intruded
- America--the Bush years
- Leaving Manhattan
- 3WW: Picture; reflected; stop: Fiction; The End of the World
- Obama, yes
- Here is home; there is home; everywhere is home. It's confusing
- Home for the holiday; Obama and Boston Legal
- After being arrested for vagrancy she has the nerve to hold her head high
- I muse
- 3WW: funny, remember, theatre: Funny, how time slips away
- To the World Trade Center 4/3/73--9/11/01
- Four percent of American's think America is doing better than it was doing five years ago
- 3WW: parallel; Bounce; Mysterious--Southern Highlights
March 2008
- Hi Daddy, part two+ not the one I originally wrote
- Refuse to give up
- If Hillary can have an imaginary life I can too
- Leader Of The Pack
- 3WW--Glass, token, question: Hi Daddy, non-fiction
- I really hate to agree with a President named Bush
- My home improvement project
- America's Bastard Children--by my nephew of choice, Kenny Butler
- If I had taken the other train
- 3WW: money, tangled, understood: Looking for love
- 3WW: money, tangled, understood: Small Wars; fiction though the war isn't
- A beggar begs, sort of
- Gail Collins speaks for me; and a side on Obama/Wright
- Winter Soldier
- 3WW: apartment, began, numb;--Last Look
- We're back--if we were ever gone
- America
February 2008
- Shouldn't have posted
- 3WW: Apology, consider, distant: A new life
- 3WW--punch, unravel, tee-shirt--fiction--Honky Tonk Angel Old Ho Home
- Today I met the realtors who I'm going to marry*, in a sense
- 3WW--choice 2--imagined, slight, girlfriend--Gonna win PCH--if you have time go with the one below. I put some time into it!
- 3WW Girlfriend; imagined, slight: A night and day in the life...
- Illusions
- Daddy's Girl and Mommy's too
- Barack or Bust: Super Delegates
- Why Pia Why? and Rock around Barack tonight
- 3WW: Bridge, disturbed, still--fiction "Company"
- Yes we can....Vote for Barack Obama
- The last recession
- As usual Frank Rich says things so much better than I can
- Go out walking--fiction
- Proud to vote for a man on Super Tuesday
January 2008
- Voyeur in New York
- A meme again--two parts are new to me
- 3WW--approach, bottle, smooth--fiction. Second Choice
- 3WW--approach, bottle, smooth--fiction.
- Some might think otherwise but I think of myself as a writer
- Tangled in cords
- About some articles in The New York Times and moi
- One of the big reasons I'm moving to The Grand Strand--two actually; they voted for Obama
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2008/01/2088/
- Since College....
- 3WW-breath scattered tomorrow: fiction: Hollywood Lives
- Pro Choice
- 1/20/09--FREEDOM IN THE USA
- Economic Stimulus?
- There are times I feel so angry
- Please read my other blog
- 3WW: awkward Kitchen obsessed fiction: Channeling Ava Gardner
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2008/01/obama-emails-jewish-leaders-bushs-legacy/
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2008/01/2073/
- I don't know why I wrote such a political rant
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2008/01/hillary-clinton-mitt-rommney-economic-stimulus-democrats-should-be-united-in-08/
- Blame it on the Republicans
- Hard Wired Brains
- This blog....
- 3WW: Colliding Worlds; chapter 17; gossip, naive, station
- In 2008
- The party's over
- Sunday in the news, and Courting Destiny tells our ideal presidential ticket
- Uh, so I have this disability and an apartment to sell...
- 3WW--Colliding Worlds chapter 16--button, luck, pretend
December 2007
- And I begin a new life
- Wow it's a New Year
- 3WW: Colliding Worlds: Chapter 15: Curious, Eventually, shower.
- 3WW--Colliding Worlds: Chapter fourteen
- Dear Me and Moi
- My left brain or do I mean my right brain?
- Merry Christmas etc
- The girl who threw the legendary parties
- 3WWW: Colliding Worlds--chapter 13; closing, headlights, virtual
- A Day Like Any Other
- The Last Thing I'm in the Mood for is the Christmas War
- Apropos of Nothing
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2007/12/google-page-rank/
- 3WW: absent, notebook, persuade; Colliding Worlds: Chapter 12
- Uptown girl on a downtown train
- Of cigarettes and other addictions
November 2007
- 3WW: Colliding Worlds…:Afford, cigarette, dim; a psychological sexual suspense novel being written online: chapter 10
- New York Voyeur
- Buyer Beware; be wary; psycho killer
- Colliding Worlds: Chapter 9
- Colliding Worlds--fiction: chapter 8--background
- Trailer Park Princess of Riverside Drive and Proud of it
- Only The Doorman Knows Her Name--card in Barnes & Noble
- Be still my heart: Frank Rich on how Judith Regan can possibly bring down Giuliani
- When I was very young. Then I was a redhead.
- 3WW--Icy, pause, train: Colliding Worlds
- Do not believe Rudy's commercial
- A roar for powerful words
- clinical depression
- Read my fiction!
- 3WW--compensate, modern, radio: Colliding Worlds; fiction--chapter 6
- Colliding Worlds--chapter 5--background
- Stay or Go?
October 2007
- 3WW--phone, stumbled, windy: Colliding Worlds-
- Domestic Violence Month
- Sunday in the city with Frank Rich and apartment update
- Levon Helm and The American Spirit
- 3WW: care unexpected weekend
- My online novel
- Color me....
- 3WW: field, hide, second
- One Bedroom; one and half marble baths; hot Upper West Side location and the detritus of my life
- Blogfriday on Sunday: How reading Clapton made me think of my own life
- The blogging grifter
- 3WW: initial, knock, weather
- Excerpt: Space chick with the Electric Hair
- Journey BlogFriday Crossroads
- feather, misplaced, useless 3WW fiction
- You are so beautiful
September 2007
- Harder than I thought
- Personal Development, Non Verbal Learning Disorder and Me
- Sleep Deprived!
- 3WW eager, caught, perfume
- My almost, not, perfect blog post
- Interview with Jancee Dunn
- Buggers in his nose
- Personal Development, yes
- out of words
- On blogging, viral marketing, SEO etc, yeah right
- 9/11 doesn't belong to me or you
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2007/09/1872/
- I worship at the alter of Frank Rich
- 3WW, pound, sunglasses, wild
- Things to do on a perfect weather Labor Day
- Five Things and more
August 2007
- 3WW: forgotten, hotel, obscure
- A day less than two years later.
- A city by rivers and a city by the sea
- Grace Paley
- 3WW corridor, linger, subtle
- 3WW--no words yet--fiction
- I have a sense of humor about myself. I guess I must because--redux
- Bliss is; Bliss isn't
- Soppy post alert--not this the one below
- For my mother
- taxi, burning, quietly 3WW fiction
- HAPPY BLOGGIVERSARY TO ME, but uh....and Karl Rove resigned: coincidence?
- I was a high school dork and am kind of proud of that High School Confidential
- Son of Sam was an adoptee who was also a serial killer
- Hey would the New York Post lie?
- Ed Anger dies
- Labor Unions for bloggers
- Tell me I misread this
- Gray, Fathom, Memphis-3WW fiction
July 2007
- Summers with Seven
- Hard Spent Karma--a post from November 2005
- Back into hiding
- This Blog named Courting....
- President Bush's wise leadership and democracy
- I was a teen age rebel and uh, oh yeah, adopted
- I really don't like Harry Potter
- A letter from my father on my 16th birthday. Found in his files after death. And I called him "daddy" or Max
- Adoption and Google
- Organizing my files has caused the detritus of my life to come tumbling--with an anti-Google diatribe addition
- Private, Crossed, Rinse 3WW fiction and an impeachment plea that is totally not fiction. Though our government might be
- My 1776th post
- 1985: Mixed blessings
- The Boho's return home
- Happy Fourth of July
June 2007
- I love New York in summer. Yes I do
- Envelope, negligible, resent: 3WW fiction
- Back to reality
- Happy Father's Day; Happy Summer
- Days like today
- My love/hatred of comments
- Sun fried
- Doug speaks
- Having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave
- Friday Flashback
May 2007
- For Cooper on her 22nd
- stroke, summer, leave 3WW fiction
- Southern Comfort
- Memorial Day
- Friday Flashback--Lucia and I go walking and one of us can't do that without getting into troubl
- A New York story, or three, of sorts
- filthy, guess, convenience: 3WW fiction
- My Sally Brompton Horoscope: It is so Me
- E-x-c-l-u-s-i-o-n or I never really liked Groucho Marx but sure would want to belong to a club he belonged to
- On May 20, 1979, she walked into a club she knew well and her life changed forever
- Friday Flashback: Summer of Sam
- Today is the day
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY WOMBAT
- A trip to Broadway
- That Day--fiction
- Ten things
- packed, cozy, anticipation 3WW fiction
- If the firemen hadn't been there...
- http://courtingdestiny.com/2007/05/1670/
- Hit and Run: fiction
- Bare, rumble, watch 3WW--fiction still on Wednesday--non fiction post below
- Bare, rumble, watch 3WW on Wednesday--not fiction
- When you live in Manhattan the only way to stay is to leave
April 2007
- The Loneliness of the short distance writer
- My built in guilt meter and MIT
- background, swings, against-3WW on Wednesday, fiction
- Don't spam on me and call it....
- Like A Virgin
- Sun shines over Manhattan
- Loving Zachary
- 3 WWW--pitch, exit, low--fiction
- They say I can't tell a story in under a thousand words
- Book store closings, mysteries, memoirs and mayhem
- On Taxes, testaments, tithes, oh I hate April
- It's only a blog, but I like it
- It's just a blog, but I like it
- Lost waves lined--3WW--fiction
- Spring Fever
- Sarah's-Place
- Stumbling and struggling
- Lost Weekend
- Children before adults?
- Miles, Voice, Holding--3WW fiction
- Hello
March 2007
- The Weeds of yesteryear: last post
- Easily, shattered, type: 3WW second choice; fiction
- Easily, type, shattered. 3 Word Wednesday on Wednesday: fiction
- From Sheepshead Bay to Coney Island
- Lounged, slice, knot---3WW--you have your choice of two fiction stories
- My blog's getting a makeover
- Back up your birth control
- They say we went to war for them
- 3WW hoarse bended, downtown--a romantic story, fiction
- Hoarse, Bended, Downtown--3WW on Wednesday night--fiction
- First came November
- Courting's getting a makeover; and Google and significant exes
- Three Word Wednesday: crowd, sneak, raging--fiction
- Yes, yes, yes, yes, four out of five counts ain't bad
- my life; the true beginning
February 2007
- Tile, scarce, lieu--three word Wednesday on Wednesday night--fiction
- Deleted Post and motivation
- Purple Haze
- Dead White Men, one very alive one, and some women
- wilted drawer ink--3WW fiction
- Because she can, not
- Rejection and Tom Waits
- things I did when I was supposed to be studying
- My right nostril
- carriage, silent, haste, 3WW (three word Wednesday) on Thursday evening
- I am firmly anti-Valentines Day
- What is it about Valentines Day?
- Drum, Secrecy, ante--Three Word Wednesday--fiction
- Electric haired chick
- Reading Books
- Thoughts the week after a blog free week
January 2007
- Three word Wednesday: professor, stairs, unlikely: Part two: Marly meets detectives
- The Cabby and his bible--originally posted on 2/15/06 under a different title
- JUST ONE; NO HON*: STEAM RISES
- While Pia is playing
- National Delurking Week
- decisive, brands, pen, bands--three word Wednesday--fiction
- New York in 72 degrees in January--revised
- Secretary, Noose, Heel--three word Wednesday, fiction
- Watched a movie on TV read the credits and had a wow the past is here moment
December 2006
- My old block--with a Wendy Wasserstein video and tribute of sorts
- Happy New Year: Revised, there's always something to add, and add 12/30
- Three word Wednesday--snapped, hill, leather--fiction
- Obsessive computer use yet to be classified as a clinical mental illness
- Pre-Christmas Eve ramblings
- sand, rush, handle--three word Wednesday on Thursday--fiction
- Email to a friend: Coming out; no not that way
- Building update; life one too
- Ding Dong the witch was fired.
- Life and a possible joke
- Page Inquire twirl: three word Wednesday: True fiction
- Heart Break
- My horoscope
- This schedule thing
- Courting Destiny photoblog: Good bye schedule, and uh panic in my mind
- Three word Wednesday on Tuesday night: snow, red, curb; a fiction exercise
- Steam Heat
November 2006
- You respect me in the morning, I think
- Net, lock, flipped: an exercise in fiction; three word Wednesday
- Winner takes all: New York in 2006
- The sun came out
- A year of blogging: from The First Amendment to Intelligent Design
- smoke, first, rolling: an exercise in fiction
- On the cancellation of OJ Simpson's book
- On the first day of Thanksgiving week
- Cathartic Experience? I don't think so
- Five word fiction exercise: wander, porcelain, constantly, spin, prescription
- stool, dancing, flushed: a three word Wednesday fiction exercise
- Psycho Killer/Serial Mom
- THE SUMMER OF 86; THE FALL OF OF 06, AND A NEW DAY IS COMING, THERE'S A TRAIN JUST DOWN THE ROAD, READY TO TAKE US ON THE RIDE OF OUR LIFETMES
- On a night like tonight almost anything can happen--my first podcast
- Times Select Week
- Here's Frank Rich, and Ted Haggard
- the world doesn't revolve around me, but it really should sometimes
- Money and the New Yorker
October 2006
- Daddy's Home
- Happy Halloween
- The husband-stealer of Independence Avenue
- A question
- Not about Boston Legal
- Walking Down Some Roads With My Mom Who is Probably Wondering Why I"m Not Out Protesting
- Capote is God: a fiction exercise: revised
- Cooper and the Wombat on mastication
- My Mom
- Roasting Pia
- Live on the other side of town
- Sex, Lies, and Lawyers
- Finally can celebrate my Mom's life
- Land of fresh starts
- Weekend Update
- Splurge, alley, laugh
- Do we leave the past behind or do we go to our class reunion?
- Memory Motel/The Devil and the anti-Beatle
- Guilt: a fiction exercise.
- Making your resume a masterpiece
September 2006
- Miss Nona
- Eugene
- Give me that old time religion
- About Courting
- Back for the day: Days of Awe
- The New Normal, Maybe
- Dynasty and MizB
- Coming Home
- The Devil Blues
- A Perfumista's View of the Big Apple
- Zenformation and the Art of Random Sexual Talking Points
- Weekend at Pia's
- On the subject of place in writing
- Anti-Semitic Comments Seem To Be The Hardest Words--Janet 9/13
- Aces and Eights
- Rapprochement: a different kind of 9/11 story--with a prequel
- Rain, boxes, rusty: three words; an exercise in fiction--with addendums
- Somewhere over the rainbow, or Brooklyn
- When the sun used to shine, last year
- Perfect Post
August 2006
- Contemplation: a writing exercise
- Stuyvesant Town for sale, second & third edition
- Walking to New Orleans
- And the sun begins to come out: Pia's New York; and the sun went in; a New York story
- Blogger in need of bloggers
- Stolen fortune cookie, and many rainy Sunday ruminations. Totally revised. Not better but revised. Less self-indulgent.
- Mayhem on West 35th Street
- About not blogging....and Castro and my Dad
- I survived two weeks at The Bates Hotel
- Obsession
- My two year Bloggiversary: Back in another less innocent life, my first blog post 8/14/04
- Keep me in your heart--will be amended all week--so keep me in your heart, Dirty Life and times analyzed. About the tenth revision to the post
- This Magic Moment with a blogging addendum
- Breaking my own rule
- Security
- Really did find my home
- Got to dance, uh got to blog, no got to write
- Gone Wave Walking, maybe
- Breaking into Blogging: the class--a true first draft by moi--with an addition
- Six months of heaven
July 2006
- I interview me, again, and will probably regret it
- Moon from my living room
- Told many secrets but kept his own
- Reopened Comments, revised but not one of my two hundred best
- Belles of the Brawls & the mosh pit of issues, revised
- The City Where I live
June 2006
- I was on Broadway and thought of a story
- Then the sun came out
- Dear Blog
- The Huffington Post Asks Me to do Them a Favor. Really
- Teeth as a metaphor for life, and then there's politics
- William Shatner, William Shatner--addendum, of course
- Honeysuckle
- She would be the Spawn of Satan only Satan is too good for her
- My Father's Daughter
- My dad's story about my adoption; originally put in Courting on 6/21/05
- About bloggers, participatory democracy and political blogging
- Declutter
- Back to birth mother talk, eventually
- What's the point of having a blog if I can't complain?
- BIO Changes
- A tale of two stores: Tiffany's and Alexander's: from the courting archives
- The List
- There's a reason I gave my blog its name, but damn if I know it
- They Really Did forget Poland
- The Icons of New York are watching
- A snowflake; from the archives
- Microsoft doesn't own the world, but my building does own me
May 2006
- Born Legal, revised again, because Alice, you're worth it
- She's High Maintenance But Thinks That She's Low Maintenance: Stolen from a TV season finale
- A Memorial Day Post
- The eternal pull of the universe calling
- Visiting dead parents
- Chutzpah with an adoption addendum
- Hurts to live in New York
- Triple Sneezer
- If our legacies are based on how our kids turned out, I'm doomed having never been a parent.
- On Personal Responsibility, and anything else that I feel like talking about
- Southern Relations
- The girlfriend break-up fight and other ramblings.
- Staircase to Life--with an addendum
- I was harassed by a 74 year old geriatric who needed a hip replacement
- As the first cut is the deepest so is the first draft, with an addendum
- California Noir Dreaming, or maybe it's Pulp Dreaming--from the Courting Archives
- Friday's post on Thursday. Like to be early if I'm not late. Totally revised
- More about recent revelations--on being an adult in the millennium
- Back to the beginning
April 2006
- Rove Rage
- Footprints
- My Mainstream Media Press.
- Daddy's home
- One hit wonder
- Love Little Luce
- My life would be a lot easier if...
- No strike!
- Flight 93--the movie; 9/11 the life style
- Prelude to a doorman's strike
- A party on my block
- More shameless self promotion & seventeen months ago this past Friday....
- The Oldest Child on The LIRR--from April, 2005
- Happy Passover; Happy Easter, and if I left any out, Happy Spring
- Why I bought my apartment
- The Patron Never Saint of blog causes. BIO edition
- More on blogging, pages that I have made, and a political statement
- The Truth is....
- Needle Park then and now
- Friday in the blogosphere
- My cover
- This isn't today's post!!!!!!!!!
- A post about nothing, and maybe everything.
- What was William Shatner best in? And favorite Twilight Zones: Just curious plus more
- The 9/11 Tapes
March 2006
- I never cried for my father
- Introducing Alana Shore
- Spam, Spyware and scummy scum--a March Madness morality tale
- My family, redeux
- This ones for my dad--it's not a Pia and daddy post
- If you're new to Courting
- Sand Castle called pity
- Why I don't write much about being adopted.
- As Pia turns
- Doorman phobia and other confessions, kind of
- It's a Dogs City
- Leaving on a jet plane--to get my brain back
- Let me never write about being adopted
- Best Indie Cult Blog Names--a contest
- The Bells did toll that day--this story is in honor of the Soprano's return to HBO
- Finding light through the circles
- A Jew who rocks and reggaes, and teenagers who shall lead the way
- Koufax Awards
- Compulsive Blogging While Anxious
- VOTE FOR COURTING IN THE KOUFAK'S: BIO ALSO
- Sweet mystery of life, and more.
- My newest avocation
- Zachary and I; for the first long while.
- Pia and Zachary show their true colors
February 2006
- A last conversation
- What does freedom mean to you? And other things.
- Something to do on a Sunday
- The Single most boring person alive
- Might visit South Dakota to protest
- The other 9/11 families
- Bloggers Wall, and Boston Legal
- My Gmail Account
- I WAS A DENTAL BULIMIC* AND OTHER SORTA RICH GIRL WOES
- BIO HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A KOUFAX ALSO
- The Summer I turned eighteen
- First a post on doing nothing, then a test about me!!!!!!!!!!!
- Being Adopted
- BIO, Blogging and Me
- Another sunny Tuesday
- A magazine discovers blogging and I want it to be summer in Riverside Park
- Body Armor, Michael Moore,and BIO
- When Lucia took a cab in a blizzard to be snowed in with me and Patrick
- Snow storm
- When I owned the world
- A cold day on the Upper West Side
- A Blogger's night
- A brilliantly sunny Tuesday in New York
- Someday I will play Sally Field as interpreted by Parker Posey
- Confessions of an obsessive-compulsive blogger
- Will, Grace, The Kiss, and Lucia
- Somethings you probably don't know about me, and why should you? Or care?
- My Day, just a bit of it!
- Tuesday night, TV and other things
January 2006
- Views
- Bloggers Banquet and Ball
- How do you fact check a life?
- 96 teardrops
- The hammer and....
- Through the Park(s)
- The third time that I said yes
- Lucia, Rafe and Pia; girls night in, a 20th anniversary of sorts
- Mixed Missed Signals
- moi
- Boston Legal, Aspergers and moi
- Michiko Kakutani
- Me speak New Yawk today; unfortunately not a Sedaris satire
- And people say that living a virtual life is boring
- If Oprah says it's okay to distort truth in memoirs
- Housekeeping!
- Half a moustache; my father asks a question
- Me and moi
- Not a Lifetime movie of the week; me and Aspergers
- Lucia and Pia go back to high school, see an exhibit and learn a bit about life
- Marty Tankleff
- Vanity trumps narcissism
- Resolutions or goals?
- Baby boomer blogs round the blogosphere in search of worlds yet undiscovered, revised edition
- descriptions, digital cameras, and more descriptions
- Larry David discusses Brokeback Mountain
- The Obligatory Best of Post, part one
December 2005
- Happy New Year!
- Lucia and I walk down Lafayette Street and one of us gets into trouble
- Destiny comes Courting
- Five or more totally weird and embarrassing things about me
- A neurotic's guide to blog awards
- Thoughts during a very long and rainy wait for a cab
- Happy holidays
- Doug Drones On: A Chritmas story
- Runny right nostrils and gift bags
- I have a conversation with myself
- A story
- Strike at my house
- The Subway Motorman
- Oh Blog I just want to go to bed, without thinking about....
- My first ever contest
- Part-ee season
- This is where my gratefulness ends
- Rumors to the contrary, I'm not Al Franken in drag
- Friday night musings
- Pre-Strike Blues
- My life at this moment
- Don't blame me or the ACLU
- A creepy story for a cold night
- Fatal Friendship
- The Shower
- Cable, TIVO, DVR's, TV & me
- Confusion Reigns
- Ed Sullivan!!!!!
- Yesterday
- Back to New York
- Brand names and tipping
- My rape
- Reasons for living a long life
- Red Ribbon
- Six bazillion degrees, ah you know
November 2005
- And the Production Assistant Rules
- Pia learns something new
- Miracle on 34th Street
- A Thanksgiving Story of sorts
- Hard Spent Karma
- Upper West Side Buildings
- Noise Complaint
- Family Heritage Albumn
- Life and Ming Vases
- This would be the most shameless of self-promotion had I had anything to do with it!
- Just one hon'?
- Nothing noble about me
- God protects drunks and other nursing home ruminations
- How I began at Social Security
- 157,000 page views; a year on BE
- Boston Legal recap and things about Long Island and the election
- Zacahary causes Pia to become allergic to her favorite sun tan oil.
- after the marathon
- Return to McCarthyism, The Patriot Act, Christians and Jews
- Are bloggers the new Edward R Murrow?
- More about Boston Legal, and Bring it on!
- The Bitch in the Penthouse
- Boston Legal and the war in Iraq
- My parents visit
- A high school reunion, sensory audio perception and some questions
October 2005
- Blame it on my dad; every thing's his fault!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Comfort Zone
- it's my party and I can gloat if I want to
- Cream reminded me of this Traffic/Blind Faith story
- Wednesday Wandering through the Blogosphere
- I am not my blog
- Do you pay for content?
- Electric Haired Chick--same piece again, but first an intro that is longer than most posts, and very classic ramble around the world with Pia
- Riffing on Max's letter to me on my 16th birthday
- Bring it on! Shades of Gray
- A Confession--a classic Pia in life story
- Kvetching, construction and Boston Legal
- An Internet Joke
- whining about blogging and real estate
- So you think I'm superficial; do you really think I care?
- Electric haired chick
- Google blog land
- let's not get bored of trying to help
- How I inadvertently began a war
- Four Confessions
- New feature on Bring it on!
- Days of Awe
- Indict Karl Rove; and I don't know what to call Bloomberg
- I'm so confused
- Sex and me
- Phone Calls
- Going on with Zachary
- On the way to the challah land
- Indian Summer, part two
- Indian Summer
September 2005
- my mother's sisters
- Back on line
- on aging: a challenge
- Very late in the night, at home
- Boston Legal
- I broke my little toe and keep on getting kicked off the internet, and a Lucia in pain story
- Your such a nigger
- Success
- listen to the tape; the aftermath of the Katrina fiasco belongs soley with the federal governmme
- In Bush's dream land that we allow to go on and on...
- Higher Ground
- My telephone
- Irrational
- A Joke
- Blame it on Katrina
- DNA tells a story
- You thought that Google began blogger for fun?
- Daddy's present
- 90 degrees! and the new TV season is beginning
- The 9/11 post
- See The Bastard's 9/11 tribute
- The last lady in America--my father's daughter
- Impeach Bush; it's the least you can do
- We the people
- Want this week to end
- If New York doesn't have an evacuation program why should New Orleans have had one?
- Been down so long...
- Werewolves of New Orleans
- The Gambler's Woman
- yesterday, today and tomorrow
- How did Trent Lott Vote?
- Walking from New Orleans
- Gawd Pia can't you just be sad for the poor people who are trapped in New Orleans?
- A community of bloggers and...
- Need info about Bogalusa LA
- The hurricane
August 2005
- Daddy was in an MTV commercial
- Unbelievable!!!!!!!
- Bogalusa LA
- How Diana Ross changed my life
- Degrees of Separation
- What's the matter with aminister in Kansas?
- Read me on Blogcritics.org
- Summer and a blog retweak; mold farm revisited; the man upstairs and the coop wars.
- Short road to nowhere
- Spamming Links
- It's beautiful outdoors!
- Sam' s summer--summer of 77
- Bring it back on!
- Coathanger days should be over unless you're playing Joan Crawford
- my photo blog
- I finally tell the joke Zachary told me the day we met
- How my parents met
- Alone again
- Grassroots
- Zachary drove a cab
- Housekeeping, My family; myself
- Coming home, part three
- Change at Atlanta; change at Jamica
- My Yiddishe mama, sure!
- A totally self absorbed post. Why? Because I'm worth it!
- A prequel and a sequel to Zachray
- Hey Good Lookin'
- Love, lust or something like that
- A night at the 140 Club
- A trip to DC with a detour..
- Rumors
- Horoscopes
- If our legacies are based on how our kids turned out, I'm doomed having never been a parent.
July 2005
- And his name is
- Reasons I fell in love with the bum who really needs a new name
- Nice girls go to heaven: Good girls go everywhere
- Walking down Madison on a late July afternoon, Pia thinks about the past
- Pia goes all over the world to apologize
- Lucia and Pia finally become friends
- Pia and Lucia meet but do not become friends, yet
- Random searches, pharmacies, the Beresfeld, and my grandmother, in stories that are random
- it's a beautiful day; so why did I dream about Woody Allen?
- It was my birthday and I had a revelation
- Lucia and Pia walk up Lafayette Street and can't even do that without one of us getting into trouble
- The least cool person in the world speaks
- Four days in July
- Weekend update: coop war unmasked
- The first time I met Rafe
- Key search
- The Boys of East 106th Street
- Billy Joel and me
- Obit for Jim Haskins who tried to make up for the lack of children's books about Black kids
- Moxie has it
- We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming!
- Saturday night/Sunday morning Ad dissection
- Coop Living
- Return to the mold farm, part 100
- Sad and Strange Day
- The return of the mold farm and other things.
- Sunday in the park with me
- Blogging revolution
June 2005
- Mold Farm, Part Deux; blogging is weird
- July 23, 2005, and after 9/11
- mold farm
- Oh yes, of course California was as affected by 9/11 as Manhattan was
- Multi subject hot Saturday with a side of Karl Rove
- Blogging Jews
- My dad's story about my parents feelings upon adopting me.
- The sisterhood of the traveling picture
- A tale of two stores: Tiffany's and Alexanders
- Bushes go wild
- But first a word from our regularly...
- Summer of Terri
- Electric Haired Chick makes her return: yes that was me in a large magazine
- Conformity rules
- Life's weird
- On Patriotism, Blogging and New York
- Saturday--thinking about Shelby
- my office hours are...
- Age of self help
- Reporting your neighbor for smoking pot is way different than reporting real crimes.
- Cousin Brucie
- Can't keep quiet about this country
- Mysteries of youth
May 2005
- Blind Faith
- Memorial Day Weekend Blues Part Two
- 26 years ago a boy went missing, and coincidentally I fell in love
- Beyond ranting
- Family Reunion
- Pouting Pia pries pridefully
- Papa don't let your daughter...
- New York Doll
April 2005
- Being Me
- comments
- Jury Duty!
- The oldest child on the LIRR
- just wondering
- When Shelby was my best friend (in the girl category)
- Clueless , about blogging, in New York
- I learned about blogging as a community
- A walker's revolution.
- Tax day!
- Savannah Falls Too
- One ring
- The Countess celebrates an anniversary
- my e-Bay account, sure
- Symphony for Cigarettes
- Saturday morning
- things I do when I'm anxious
- My Manicurist
- My new sneakers and sandals!
- An e-mail story
- Terrazzo tiled pharmacy, with the world's best candles, in the center of the Upper West Side
- The only joke I can tell
March 2005
- Oh Toto there's no place like home
- Terri's not in pain
- Terri
- comments
- A personal story
- Leaving on a jet plane
- Anger doesn't become me
- Oh Maureen Dowd, maybe we don't want to be you
- weather report/met him at the limelight
- going fishing
- In a New York Moment
- The Man Upstairs
- Born to Blog
- Easy to hate
- 26 degrees feels like 12
- Yesterday
- Truly Disclaiming My Life Away
- Why I don't practice Social Work
- Prelude to rules of the road
- Lucia speaks
- Ciao Cao, new spam, and watch me sputter!
- Only a Muslim is capable of hating this much--and if you believe that you're not my kind of American
- Apology to an old friend
- Sorry Cao sometimes a murder is just a murder
- Um and uh girls
- Faith based initiatives--a time that has come?
- Comments back and running--over 25,000 hits since 11/13
- The coop war.
- Some questions about faith based programs
- The power of words
- Felt like I wasn't observing Thanksgiving! Oh James Spader I missed you last night.
February 2005
- I won't be watching the Oscars
- If I'm not a linear thinker, must I be psychologically impaired, and a member of the far left?
- Fiction or Fact?
- Merely Manners
- Etiquette questions
- To Mr. Whatever your name is
- Using my blog to experiment
- Pity me not, the sequel
- Anger becomes her: 9/11 & the Florida Election
- Hating to hate
- It's starting
- Teenager tells mom and friend to dress their age
- Blog on
- I'm Back
- workingtitle; workingcopy
- Sam's summer: Summer of '77
- My super, my building, my mom and me
- Christmas 1983, The Turnberry Club, Miami
January 2005
- Cranky Liberal Speaks--my first guest columnist
- On a roll
- First Amendment again and again
- Who's your mommy?
- Who am I?
- Courting Destiny Blog : Home
- Who's your daddy?
- Conservative no; Christian yes
- More about me, me, me
- Last Night Central Park Was Grand.
December 2004
- Sad starting New Year
- Due to technical glitches, getting the quirks out of my new site, and, oh yes, a life, this will be my last post, maybe, until next week.
- morals and values--only read this if you're a dictionary freak
- Moral values--overused and overrated
- Chase and Me again
- RudyG's legacy
- Last night I felt so stupid for having posted my Chase rant. But it's true and while I don't believe in "worthy" or "less worthy" I should be a cust
- Only read the Chase post if you truly hate banks, or an insomniac and need something truly boring and whiny to fall asleep to. If you think that I'm
- Bernie quits so that Rudy can run, how noble
- Fairway and me and the world
- Jack Newfield
- Denny Crane
- Now they're saying Advil's bad. What's next? Santa Claus?
- Continuing my crush on James Spader
- I said that the media spins in favor of Bush and Cheney? Me?
- legalized extortion week
- Kerik and Bush--a match made by divine intervention and the USA"s biggest tragedy
- Defensive Offense
- Shameless Self-Promotion & why I write about NY in the 70's and 80's
- Will the Jews be blamed? Is a National Religion around the corner?
- Social Insecurity, Bernard kerik and other ranting
- Oh my, Bush really isn't living in the real world
- Losing my store envy
- more about elder abuse
- My mind; my blog; my voice
- Multi-tasking blog
- Ha? What does this have to do with Bush?
- Hate mail is so much fun
- Elder Abuse
- "C" for clarity
- Just wondering
- Brief Encounter
- Admitting something dangerous
- Reality becomes her
- Yesterday
- Kids say the darndest....
- Why I don't write about my day
- What would Shatner do? And why is this country such a mess?
- Courting Destiny
- When you're brought up on The New Yorker....
- James Spader (just once) redeux
- More Tom Waits
- James Spader, James Spader, William Shatner, uh Denny Crane, Denny Crane
- Happy Birthday Tom Waits
- New Year; New Look; New URL
- Mom's revenge
- Ray
- California Noir Dreaming
- New Design and bitch fest (a montage)
- Blogging Blogs
- Teenage girl without any confidence desired life
- Rally days
- Up close and personal
- A story about the Red Ribbon
November 2004
- cut, action, delete
- How I began to become an adult
- How Diana Ross changed my life
- Back in the '80's daddy was in a MTV commercial
- City life in the last century
- Alphapbet Soup and other learning disorders
- Two percent--kinehora
- Approximately entitled. An adoption story.
- Colorblind
- A seasonal moment
- Polarization
- Hope
- Back in the past
- Teenage misery
- semi-luddite
- Heightened Sense of Insecurity
- I'm sorry
- Partial profanity
- Misery
- No more
- If Queens is the new Brooklyn then blogs are....
- A pharmacy delivery, a coop and a girl
- In Jesus, we....
- Heartless Bitches
- Distracted by Aging--an ellipse rant
- Something about daddy
- The penthouse next door, and the super here
- Okay George
- Election eve at my building
October 2004
September 2004
- Punishment & Rewards
- True crimes and punishment
- Worthy
- Ranting on Religion and the Government
- Jet lagged.
- 3,000 miles from New York
