• Home
  • Archive
  • About
  • Awards & Media
  • Contact
    • Facebook
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter

Courting Destiny

  • Courting Classics
  • Fiction
  • Mainstream Media
  • New York Stories
  • My Parents
  • Mental Health
  • N. Myrtle Beach

Sign Up For My Weekly Newsletter!

New Year; New Look; New URL

December 6, 2004 By pia

By the new year my blog will have all of the above–with of course a redirect page.

I like my current URL; I was going to keep it as a protest for the next four years. But while I want to continue writing political rants, I don’t want people to see the URL “FreeNYNYfromBush…” and be turned off to reading it.

Can’t help that. I want all people to at least try reading my blog once. Then a person can hate me if he/she wants to. I don’t personalize comments.

Everybody likes to be liked. And I love the encouraging comments. But the negative ones serve a purpose also. They inspire me to write more, to learn more, to research any question I can’t answer.

That’s my sickeningly earnest rant for the year.

Note: I know that Bakersfield and Barstow aren’t going to win any beauty awards, but for a Northerner who dreams of the west they have a fantasy under tone. I did say Noir not art deco or riot of colors though some of the best noir places have both (South Beach, Miami Beach where I spent my second winter, and then watched go from old people’s heaven to body beautiful.)

I just spend too much time plotting my move to California– a beach town near LA that I love, not Venice but next to it–Santa Monica where I can go from the beach to Topanga Canyon to the Santa Monica Mountains all in the space of an afternoon.

A Manhattanite who has to travel to get to the ocean, mountains and wouldn’t know a canyon if it hit me in the head, can dream impossible dreams.

Filed Under: Uncategorized

« Mom's revenge
Happy Birthday Tom Waits »

Search for your favorite post!

Follow Me!

  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Sign up Now!

Sign up now and get my latest posts delivered right to your inbox!

About Me

I live in the South, not South Florida, a few blocks from the ocean, and two blocks from the main street. It's called Main Street. Amazes me too.

I'm from New York. I mostly lived in the Mid-Upper East Side, and the heart of the Upper West Side. It amazes me when people talk about how scared they were of Times Square in the 1970's and 1980's.

As my mother said: "know the streets, look out and you'll be fine."

What was scary was the invasion of the crack dens into "good buildings in good 'hoods." And the greedy landlords who did everything they could to get good tenants out of buildings.

I'm a Long Island girl, and proud of it now.
Then I hated everything about the suburbs. Yet somehow I lived in a few great Long Island Sound towns after high school.

Go to archives "August 2004" if you want to begin with the first posts.

Categories

Archives

All material contained herewith is owned by Pia Savage, LLC

Copyright © 2021 Courting Destiny · Designed by Technology-Therapist