- Courting Destiny

October 18, 2008 By pia

I’m writing a column for a new online zine ThoughtCafe

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sage says

October 18, 2008 at 11:44 am

The Levi Stubbs post didn’t load. Nice article on blogging in ThoughtCafe–i agree, to me it’s mostly been about writing (and later photos). It’s why I feel guilty when I don’t have time to write stories or memories.

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.

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