http://courtingdestiny.com As Destiny doesn't come calling Wed, 14 May 2008 23:37:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some days I still don't believe that I left. It feels weird. Not quite a vacation; not quite a life. http://courtingdestiny.com/archives/2008/05/14/2232/ Edwards was my first choice. Go Obama! Hopefully Edwards can explain to many why Obama's health care plan makes so much more sense. I'm supposed to be a "natural" Hillary supporter as I'm a middle aged New York Jewish woman with a graduate degree. I resent easy ... http://courtingdestiny.com/archives/2008/05/14/3ww-bone-aging-invisible-women-in-society-being-over-50-and-trying-to-be-a-writer/ Sometime soon a book is coming out. The author and I were in a class together. I wrote a story. Doesn't matter what it was on. Two weeks later she wrote an almost identical story. I wasn't supposed to think she stole from me but ... http://courtingdestiny.com/archives/2008/05/13/non-verbal-learning-disorder-stealing-writing-stealing-ideas-being-inspired-by-others-ideas/ This is an article about how New York was saved in 1975. No thanks to the federal government Mr. Rohatyn recalled the spokesman for President Gerald R. Ford comparing New York City to a wayward daughter hooked on heroin. “You don’t give her $100 a day to support her habit,” ... http://courtingdestiny.com/archives/2008/05/11/gretchen-morgenson-new-york-times-new-york-1975-felix-royahtn-big-mac-bonds/ I knew I had to get my apartment on the market by the end of January at the latest for it to sell in a reasonable timeframe and at the price I wanted. But I was only the owner and couldn't fire the contractor as he had too much ... http://courtingdestiny.com/archives/2008/05/09/rent-stabilzation-rent-control-social-history-of-new/ I took the writer's island prompt "ferocious" and combined it with two weeks worth of 3WW.. The first weeks words are: empty, highway, ignored. The second week's words are: cautious, human, empty ••••••••• It took me two days to write this post and I deleted the best parts. Hope I can ... http://courtingdestiny.com/archives/2008/05/07/3ww-bone-little-nibbler-writers-island-mothers-day-adult-children-and-mothers-complications-of-living-too-long-macular-degeneration-old-age-in-america/ I thought the Writer's Island prompt on Helen Hunt's new movie rather serendipitous. I love Helen Hunt--except for the year there seemed to be only three actors--her, Kevin Spacey and Nic Cage Then because writing this thoroughly depressed me and it's cool and very windy out I wrote using the ... http://courtingdestiny.com/archives/2008/04/29/writers-island-adoption-birth-mother-adoptee/ Am I the only person who thinks Gail Collins looks like Laura Bush but has great things to say anyway? This is about the Supreme Court and equal pay for women. When it comes to money, I can be called a feminist to the core. The most ... http://courtingdestiny.com/archives/2008/04/27/laura-berg-sedition-investigation-bush-administration-bungling-hurricane-katrina-iraq-war/ I just cleaned my cpanel of all unnecessary junk and went from having a filled disk to having much space. Feel much better about blogging and life in general. There is something about a clutterless life Lately I feel self-conscious blogging not to prompts. I had a post ... http://courtingdestiny.com/archives/2008/04/25/leaving-manhattan-selling-an-upper-west-side-apartment-manhattan-coops/ Thanks Bone for always picking such amazing words. I know it ain't easy. Here's a link to a great op-ed piece by Paul Auster about being 21 in the spring of 68 and looking forward to graduating and being drafted. It goes with the story I began several weeks ago. Dinah lived ... http://courtingdestiny.com/archives/2008/04/23/3ww-bone-little-nibbler-1969-college-during-viet-nam-years/