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Archives

October 2020

  • 07: gross

February 2020

  • 25: Blogging and NLD

September 2019

  • 11: Remembering 9/11: Live And Resist (1)

August 2019

  • 13: Hurricane Florence: The DNA Conundrum
  • 04: First Cut Is The Hardest Cut; So Not True (1)

August 2018

  • 08: Depression Comes Softly (3)

June 2018

  • 09: The Power Of Tomorrow (2)

May 2018

  • 09: So Why Did You Move: An Adult With NLD (1)

January 2018

  • 12: Learning To Breath, Again

November 2017

  • 29: Cat Calls: Part One

October 2017

  • 18: Crazy Bitchy Female

September 2017

  • 18: 13 Reasons Why I Protest (4)
  • 11: Before The Storm (3)

August 2017

  • 26: A plea (2)
  • 18: But Charlottesville was…. (10)
  • 06: The shame of not having a clutter free house (7)
  • 04: Circular Swimming

May 2017

  • 29: That time a psychologist….. (5)
  • 14: Finding My Mother; My Real (Adoptive) One (7)
  • 10: I Believed in Karma (5)

April 2017

  • 23: Prologue To A Life (1)
  • 08: Pushing when I should be pulling (1)

March 2017

  • 31: A Les Mis Day, or how I lost my “perfect” credit over $9.90 (5)
  • 02: A Blessing And A Miracle (6)

February 2017

  • 05: Matters of Principle: America And Peaceful Protests (15)

January 2017

  • 29: Not a sheep (1)
  • 11: #EndTheStigma–Rebecca Massie (4)

December 2016

  • 28: How Carrie Fisher Helped Me Redfine Myself (2)

November 2016

  • 21: Badge of Honor (22)

September 2016

  • 26: Welcome To The Bronx (1)
  • 10: My Heart, Broken
  • 06: A Jewish Liberal In The South: Part Two (4)
  • 02: A Jewish Liberal In The South: Part One (13)

August 2016

  • 13: Twelve Years; 2,000 blog posts (3)

July 2016

  • 25: High functioning anxiety, NLD, and the older person (2)
  • 09: I Come In Peace: We Are All American (24)

June 2016

  • 22: I Cried (7)
  • 07: For All The Women Who Aren’t Hillary (3)
  • 05: Finding a Reason to Say Nolo Contendere (2)

May 2016

  • 31: A Newer Improved Courting Destiny Makes Its Debut (4)
  • 17: Pee in a cup–you prescription drug addict, (me) (12)
  • 02: Too damn old (19)

April 2016

  • 26: Kimmy Schmitt, you are way too important to me (2)
  • 17: Missing Mommy (4)

March 2016

  • 13: Summer Lights
  • 06: Back In The ’70’s: memoir
  • 01: NLD doesn’t define me (1)

February 2016

  • 22: Let me never end up….
  • 13: A Life Away From Facebook (1)
  • 07: Bus Ride There; Bus Ride Here! (1)

January 2016

  • 24: The Bag Lady Scenario or Is Cat Food In My Future (6)
  • 02: My Best Friend’s Birthday

December 2015

  • 09: Waiting For My Tendons To Rupture (8)

November 2015

  • 23: Fearing Fear (6)
  • 16: Some travel stories, 9/11, Paris and me (3)

October 2015

  • 22: Counting the ale bottles (5)
  • 17: Courting Destiny—the original design–and a story about NY, 1976

September 2015

  • 28: Me and my generation; we go together (2)
  • 20: Absolute Rights (6)
  • 20: I Feel Cheated
  • 15: Dreams, hopes, blogging and writing (9)
  • 02: Sleeping Beauties (5)

August 2015

  • 26: The Blinders Fit Perfectly (2)
  • 13: Be Careful What You Wish For (30)
  • 12: Childhood, redeux (6)
  • 09: Another blog lives on, barely (9)

July 2015

  • 22: Don’t Pee On Me….my last NLD post (3)
  • 14: Wonderful Weekend For a Moondance (20)
  • 11: Sad, scared and rapidly aging (14)

June 2015

  • 21: The Confederate Flag, The Swastika, and me (8)

May 2015

  • 31: Choices: a tale of midlife, money, sex, and love (12)

March 2015

  • 26: Swan Songs and all that (4)
  • 21: About Me: Part 1,000
  • 20: Safe Harbor (6)
  • 03: Transitions: Finding Friends in All The Right Places (9)

February 2015

  • 19: Moving from NY to North Myrtle Beach, part 4—compassion (13)
  • 16: Life in Two Centuries (3)

January 2015

  • 05: My move from New York to North Myrtle Beach, part 3 (9)

December 2014

  • 29: Moving from New York to North Myrtle Beach, part two (11)
  • 25: About Me–Part 500A (2)
  • 10: Moving from Manhattan to North Myrtle Beach, part one (8)

November 2014

  • 18: Stirring The Pot (21)
  • 04: Courting Destiny meets the world; but is the world ready (4)

October 2014

  • 04: Roll Tide (19)

September 2014

  • 22: And the years keep coming (6)

August 2014

  • 16: Tomorrow (11)
  • 01: The Journey Goes On And On And…. (3)

June 2014

  • 12: Finally almost enamored with me, almost (8)
  • 01: The Week of Myrtle Beach’s Shame (6)

May 2014

  • 13: The Why We Blog Tour: Seeking Truth (6)
  • 07: The Day My Mother Became Sheriff of Dodge (9)

April 2014

  • 27: A New Yorker realizes she did something amazing. (4)
  • 04: The only disability in life is a bad attitude–oh really (6)

March 2014

  • 27: On Lafayette Street–first posted in 2005 (9)
  • 21: Leaving New York–part one (2)
  • 21: The beginning and the end have a lot in common–prologue

February 2014

  • 28: A Short History of My Relationship With my Father Through TV (4)
  • 24: You probably think this post is about you (9)
  • 21: I Answer a Question or Two (4)
  • 13: 02/13/2014–the day I got my life back (22)
  • 12: Before there is shagging there is ice (4)

January 2014

  • 17: Liquidating Life (14)
  • 11: Not One of Reva’s Girls (8)

December 2013

  • 22: Let the spiders bite (real not bots) (5)
  • 21: Gone Carousing (8)
  • 16: About Me–Redux (3)
  • 06: Under Construction (3)

November 2013

  • 16: Who killed the Kennedy(s)? (6)

October 2013

  • 30: This is not how it looks! (4)

June 2013

  • 25: Cover stories, verdicts and dementia. (7)
  • 13: If I had the wings of an angel (7)
  • 08: My Father’s Moustache (10)
  • 07: The one where every baby boomer blogger continues to ignore me (4)

April 2013

  • 15: I was writing this for psychology today but got all scatttered and sad and…. (5)

March 2013

  • 05: Myrtle Manor–not a real post for not a real show (8)
  • 04: All Over the place (6)

December 2012

  • 31: Last Night Central Park Was Grand–originally posted 10/01/05 (2)

October 2012

  • 28: Be safe! (2)
  • 21: How I almost got arrested (5)

September 2012

  • 15: My latest
  • 11: Long time after (3)
  • 01: What I would say on Facebook if I had the nerve (3)

August 2012

  • 19: I forgot the most important line in the post below (3)
  • 13: The moonwalk, my father and me (9)
  • 03: 7561 (3)

July 2012

  • 02: 7514

May 2012

  • 01: Lucia and Pia can’t even walk down a street without getting into trouble. Well one of us! (5)

March 2012

  • 29: Newest Girl (10)

February 2012

  • 03: My forgotten blog proudly still supports Planned Parenthood

January 2012

  • 11: 7234

December 2011

  • 31: Reflections on a New Year (6)
  • 19: My last post of the year for Psychology Today
  • 14: A letter, a comment, The New York Times (5)
  • 09: Latest PT post

November 2011

  • 29: Nothing about Thanksgiving in New York (5)
  • 10: Psychology Today

October 2011

  • 31: 7029
  • 30: Catching my breath (14)

September 2011

  • 26: 6950 (7)
  • 10: 9/11/11 (3)

August 2011

  • 30: Life, Lies and Secrets (9)
  • 12: Courting is seven on August 13th; Old enough to think for itself (6)
  • 05: A birthday, another city and a flower (4)
  • 03: My latest Psychology Today post

July 2011

  • 30: They let me own a house? (9)
  • 11: 6620 (4)
  • 01: What I did last night (2)

June 2011

  • 03: Summertime and the living is… (4)

May 2011

  • 26: 6457
  • 18: Sunday morning omelet (10)
  • 08: A whole lot of nothing (8)

April 2011

  • 29: Good living, Bone, keep it up (4)
  • 26: To Phoebe Snow (5)
  • 17: The oldest child on the LIRR (7)
  • 13: I used to blog here, yes? (8)
  • 03: 6130
  • 02: neither here nor there (4)

March 2011

  • 27: No, I can’t; yes, I can: oh I’m so confused (8)
  • 24: Pia bitches and bitches (5)
  • 23: A matter of degrees
  • 15: With a whimper (6)
  • 13: My fifth PT post
  • 06: Childhood dreams: 3WW: dainty; haunting; tantalize (8)
  • 02: My upbeat fun post for Psychology Today

February 2011

  • 22: On my father’s birthday (4)
  • 20: My third Psychology Today post–No Mistakes Allowed
  • 18: Would have been my father’s birthday
  • 09: Bitching always bitching (8)
  • 04: Esoteric Wombat (6)
  • 03: My second post in Psychology Today
  • 01: Seeing a picture: part 3 (9)

January 2011

  • 25: Psychology Today!!!!! And a condensed version of what Courting is!
  • 23: Seeing A Picture: Part Deuce (12)
  • 18: Seeing a picture (14)
  • 13: Some last thoughts on this week–just my last thoughts (5)
  • 11: A confession (8)
  • 08: A night. A day. (7)
  • 06: Identity Crisis (10)
  • 02: How I spent New Year’s Day Morn (20)

December 2010

  • 29: Last Night Cental Park Was Grand–originally posted 01/01/05 (5)
  • 26: Space Chick with the Electric Hair: an explanation of sorts
  • 23: 3WW: educate, object, silence–space chick with the electric hair, a memoir (6)
  • 17: A letter to Jon Stewart (8)
  • 15: 3WW–dabble, lean, utter: Space Chick with the Electric Hair (11)
  • 08: 3WW: judge, nightfall, safety: space chick with the electric hair (23)
  • 06: 750 Words–actually 900–letter to a friend; We are the Blenderbusters!!!! Spacechick with the electric hair
  • 01: 3WW–demise, effort, revival–space chick with the electric hair (13)

November 2010

  • 16: When I was eleven: Space Chick with the Electric Hair (7)
  • 10: 3WW–gesture, immediate, treasure–Space Chick with the Electric Hair (18)
  • 05: Second coming of summer! (5)
  • 03: 3WW–abrupt, kernel, wield; space chick with the electric hair, a memoir (8)

October 2010

  • 27: 3WW-fragile, rampant, tremor (6)
  • 26: One word–shore (5)
  • 20: 3WW: effect, immense, shimmer: space chick with the electric hair: memoir (30)
  • 18: The attack of the killer bee (8)
  • 13: 3WW–absolve, hiss, ridicule (7)
  • 08: 5047 (6)
  • 06: 3WW: Hint, lust, sheen–a chapter from space chick with the electric hair (15)

September 2010

  • 29: 3WW engulf, imminent, tamper (15)
  • 22: 4981
  • 22: 3WW–gait, nudge, ripen (11)
  • 19: 4958
  • 18: A tale of two stores (2)
  • 16: The Sad Season (17)
  • 14: 4914 (4)

August 2010

  • 26: I didn’t know I had a yard. Thought I had a lot of rocks and sand! Then I went to work…… (17)
  • 18: 3WW–grimace, phase, stumble—Space Chick with the Electric Hair, a memoir– a very small part (28)
  • 13: This is my brain on melt (8)
  • 11: My sixth blogiversary. 8/13/10 or Friday the 13th… As I had a birthday with the number 6 in it this year….. (8)
  • 10: Lucia and Pia walk down Lafayette Street and one of us can’t walk without getting into trouble (7)
  • 08: This could happen to you…probably not but I like to pretend (9)
  • 05: If I were a better blogger (12)
  • 04: Fairway, me and the world
  • 01: Back in another less innocent time (12)
  • 01: Prelude to a hurricane (4)

July 2010

  • 26: A day or so (6)
  • 24: A diatribe (5)
  • 16: Ramblings of a good mind, sort of (11)
  • 14: 4547
  • 14: Something I wrote for RedRoom
  • 12: The Affliction of the Gifted (4)
  • 08: Lil Red (4)

June 2010

  • 30: Finally understand why they call it the long hot summer (5)
  • 15: Have you heard the one…. (9)
  • 06: Pia finally realizes she no longer lives in NY (13)

May 2010

  • 26: 3WW: abandon; gradual; precise: fiction (26)
  • 19: 3WW: dread; grasp; pacify: fiction (26)
  • 18: Marinade Dave–Caylee Anthony (17)
  • 16: Then they came for me…. (28)
  • 12: Witch Trials Today
  • 12: 3WW: fear, ignore, weightless (16)
  • 04: Tea Parties and Kent State (14)

April 2010

  • 23: Crazy, I’m feeling crazy (7)
  • 21: 3WW: ebb; negotiate; random: Being Jewish in The Bible Belt (18)
  • 15: 3WW: brash; lubricate; saint: You’re such a disappointment: fiction (6)
  • 05: Miss Frances (8)
  • 01: Pia takes a walk in Manhattan (8)

March 2010

  • 20: Pia rants and pouts and kind of gives up on certain things (13)
  • 14: I have a blog; I have a house and only one comes first (8)
  • 13: 4282 (4)
  • 06: On the anniversary of her second year here Pia becomes a real South Carolinian (12)
  • 03: Pia attempts to think things out (9)

February 2010

  • 24: Something about me (10)
  • 18: The Long Cold Chilly Windy Winter (12)
  • 13: Snow from my living room, in coastal South Carolina, and my living room (6)
  • 07: Running to New Orleans (16)
  • 06: Never know if it’s me or not (2)

January 2010

  • 18: Blogging for love or money (13)
  • 13: 3WW: jolt; ribbon; zeal: fiction (41)
  • 09: Wives & mothers (18)
  • 06: 3WW: Epic; drain; nibble. Fiction: Older not wiser (16)
  • 05: Someday….someday’s now (5)

December 2009

  • 31: A new decade’s a coming and here’s an old one (6)
  • 29: TV issues (5)
  • 28: Decade of the blogger (2)
  • 17: About me–2010 edition (5)
  • 16: Revamping the Vamp
  • 11: TMI (3)
  • 09: Once, twice, three times a lady (5)
  • 01: Shades of Blue (5)

November 2009

  • 18: 3WW:Accident, Loyal, obscene: The Family Grove; fiction (8)
  • 11: Friends: the one that didn't get away (5)
  • 05: 3WW:karma; wither; obey. Fiction (6)

October 2009

  • 31: Happy Halloween (6)
  • 28: Pulling backwards (1)
  • 15: The house husband and tempting the gods… (8)
  • 07: Backward world (5)

September 2009

  • 25: My boot camp needs a brand; no my blog needs branding; no I'm going to be my own brand (9)
  • 21: Confessions of a TV junkie (6)
  • 13: To North Myrtle Beach–city officials, Lions Club and people speaking at the 9/11 thing (4)
  • 07: I smelt the Pine Sol and found my future (4)
  • 02: I finally understand I own a house and don't have great health insurance (4)

August 2009

  • 29: Follow the fellow who follows a dream (4)
  • 22: Climbing metaphorical mountains (8)
  • 16: Dear Blog (4)
  • 13: My five year blogiversary (14)
  • 04: A couple of nights on the Upper West Side (4)
  • 03: Another day…. (4)

July 2009

  • 31: Mea Culpa and Thank You (7)
  • 29: 3WW: Darkness; patronize; weaken–Monkey on my back; yes I love cliches especially drug ones (18)
  • 21: Bless you(r) heart, Miss Pia, you look divine…. (6)
  • 09: I unpack my last two suitcases and find a mountain to climb out of (3)
  • 06: The night I began to become a Southerner (5)
  • 03: Happy Birthday America!!!!!!!!!!! (3)
  • 01: The muse has dried up (9)

June 2009

  • 22: Why I'm just supernaturally calm…. (3)
  • 21: Just when I think it's safe …. (7)
  • 17: The Joint is Jumping (4)
  • 12: Paul Krugman on terrorism (6)
  • 11: I never said I have anything of substance to say; oh maybe I did… (5)
  • 01: Life's a bitch (5)

May 2009

  • 27: 3WW: dreary; embrace; timid: fiction: Late Spring of Etan (20)
  • 20: 3WW: efficient; optimize; treacherous: fiction "Happy Anniversary" (20)
  • 17: I grow flowers (6)
  • 15: Almost somewhere (4)
  • 10: A house becomes a home (6)
  • 08: While on the subject of mothers (6)
  • 06: A cab ride and Random observations or something (4)

April 2009

  • 28: Look out New York I'm coming* (5)
  • 23: Foundation: Wild Fire; day 3 (7)
  • 22: 3WW: deceit; indulge; oath: Me and Jeffrey part 3; prequel to meeting part 2 (25)
  • 15: 3WW–allure, perch, vivid: A prequel to meeting Jeffrey (18)
  • 14: In Dreams (13)

March 2009

  • 30: Hey Daddy, part five (4)
  • 26: I moved! And a picture of me from the second era of my life when anything was possible–well a link to (4)
  • 11: Wacky Wednesday weirdness–blame it on the full moon…. (5)
  • 08: Hey Daddy–part four (7)
  • 05: I'm officially a Redneck! (6)
  • 04: Avenge, genuine, ramble—3WW fiction (11)
  • 03: On West End Ave; a cold snowy Monday in early March–fiction (4)

February 2009

  • 27: Hey Daddy, part 3 (3)
  • 26: my house blog
  • 26: A swan song of sorts (5)
  • 22: Hey Daddy (second in a series) (6)
  • 19: Hey Daddy

December 2008

  • 26: A gift
  • 16: Alphabet Kids: From ADD to Zellweger Syndrome (3)
  • 12: A fiction exercise: Woman at 50something

November 2008

  • 15: They say there's no such thing as an original idea but I thought of it first
  • 12: Uh, I bought a house
  • 10: I made a mistake; such a big mistake
  • 07: Sometimes it hits me
  • 05: And people wonder why I love Paul Krugman
  • 04: Finally, Election Night, revised from the streets of the Upper West Side

October 2008

  • 27: We're all election weary
  • 24: Around The NY Times and other things with Pia (3)
  • 20: Beginning a new life
  • 18: 2419
  • 15: Sign Sealed Delivered
  • 11: New York during a heat spell last spring
  • 10: OMG: this is my last weekend as a UWS'r
  • 08: Go Obama!!!!!!!! (2)
  • 05: For Jacquelin
  • 03: I nominate***** (5)

September 2008

  • 30: Your Day Awayâ„¢ 2008
  • 26: If I am chopped liver I would hope I'm the vegetarian kind
  • 20: The largest political rally in the history of Alaska…
  • 14: Days before a full moon (4)
  • 13: False Beauty; real beauty: Or; Plans? You still believe in plans and planning? Silly goose you
  • 08: Seventeen years ago; then seven; now today
  • 07: Palin is personal
  • 07: Courting no trouble
  • 05: The battle cry of the no longer popular blogger
  • 04: We're too damn complacent; don't let them win* (6)
  • 03: 3WW: awry, blame, hiatus (8)
  • 01: Teenage love/pregnancy

August 2008

  • 31: My Intelligent Design Post–originally posted on 8/27/05 (2)
  • 31: Obama more than ever (3)
  • 23: God's Country Tours and complaints
  • 14: Five years ago today
  • 13: 3WW: river, intimate, view
  • 08: Bad Blogger–me, not the blogging platform
  • 05: I want to believe
  • 02: Another Friday night

July 2008

  • 30: 3WW: gamble, omitted, temporary: temporary measures
  • 28: Oh off with their heads or it's not too late to impeach
  • 27: About the bed slut and North Myrtle
  • 24: My father introduced us to a trailer park (3)
  • 23: 3WW: avoid; class; stick: The Beach Slut
  • 18: Something–teaching white men to dance since 1862
  • 14: A post with no name; a country without morals
  • 13: Honestly….. (2)
  • 11: Makeover!!! & Friend of the Devil
  • 10: Music to lose money and have a breakdown to
  • 09: 3WW: inappropriate; order; shortcut: Not An NLD Blog
  • 08: Bush bashing fatigue blues and other codas
  • 05: Near but not too close to the street I live on to Yankee Doodle Dandy (8)
  • 05: My defenses working overtime; revised (6)
  • 02: Not just clumsy; odd girl out
  • 02: 3WW: Indifferent; pour; reason: Eventually everything gets put into Spam; part two: fiction

June 2008

  • 27: 3WW–rumor; shake; spontaneous:Eventually everything gets put into Spam–fiction (5)
  • 24: A warm and fuzzy family memory brought on by George Carlin's death
  • 23: In the city (5)
  • 22: Parts of a Weekend
  • 19: Mother never said there would be surreal days; crazy ones yes (5)
  • 17: Me and Obama smoking together
  • 16: Rip Current
  • 15: A phone call
  • 11: 3WW: change; dizzy, key (15)
  • 05: Life is Good, really
  • 04: 3WW: Deny, smile, uncomfortable: Sex & The City; a sort of critique (16)
  • 01: Breaking the rules once more. (5)

May 2008

  • 30: A letter I wrote to the New York Times that was automatically rejected
  • 30: My apartment better sell for the lowered price
  • 28: 3WW: blurred, illegal, match: fiction: Dinah's journey
  • 23: This is my year
  • 21: 3WW: Delayed, edge, focus; at the edge
  • 17: Just another blogger spewing much verbiage
  • 14: 2232 (1)
  • 14: 3WW: Average, neck, scratch: New beginnings; don't count me out. Take me seriously
  • 13: Wouldn't it be nice?
  • 11: My personal god–Felix Royahtn
  • 09: Rent, sales and Beach Boys
  • 07: Ferocious, she would call her love

April 2008

  • 29: Writer's Island:Then she found me; completion–after I intruded
  • 27: America–the Bush years
  • 25: Leaving Manhattan
  • 23: 3WW: Picture; reflected; stop: Fiction; The End of the World (15)
  • 22: Obama, yes
  • 20: Here is home; there is home; everywhere is home. It's confusing (5)
  • 16: Home for the holiday; Obama and Boston Legal (11)
  • 14: After being arrested for vagrancy she has the nerve to hold her head high
  • 11: I muse
  • 09: 3WW: funny, remember, theatre: Funny, how time slips away
  • 06: To the World Trade Center 4/3/73–9/11/01
  • 03: Four percent of American's think America is doing better than it was doing five years ago
  • 02: 3WW: parallel; Bounce; Mysterious–Southern Highlights

March 2008

  • 31: Hi Daddy, part two+ not the one I originally wrote
  • 31: Refuse to give up
  • 28: If Hillary can have an imaginary life I can too
  • 27: Leader Of The Pack
  • 26: 3WW–Glass, token, question: Hi Daddy, non-fiction
  • 25: I really hate to agree with a President named Bush
  • 23: My home improvement project (6)
  • 21: America's Bastard Children–by my nephew of choice, Kenny Butler (5)
  • 19: If I had taken the other train
  • 19: 3WW: money, tangled, understood: Looking for love
  • 19: 3WW: money, tangled, understood: Small Wars; fiction though the war isn't (9)
  • 16: A beggar begs, sort of
  • 15: Gail Collins speaks for me; and a side on Obama/Wright
  • 12: Winter Soldier
  • 12: 3WW: apartment, began, numb;–Last Look
  • 10: We're back–if we were ever gone
  • 02: America

February 2008

  • 27: Shouldn't have posted
  • 27: 3WW: Apology, consider, distant: A new life (13)
  • 20: 3WW–punch, unravel, tee-shirt–fiction–Honky Tonk Angel Old Ho Home
  • 14: Today I met the realtors who I'm going to marry*, in a sense (9)
  • 13: 3WW–choice 2–imagined, slight, girlfriend–Gonna win PCH–if you have time go with the one below. I put some time into it!
  • 13: 3WW Girlfriend; imagined, slight: A night and day in the life…
  • 10: Illusions
  • 08: Daddy's Girl and Mommy's too (9)
  • 08: Barack or Bust: Super Delegates (2)
  • 07: Why Pia Why? and Rock around Barack tonight
  • 06: 3WW: Bridge, disturbed, still–fiction "Company"
  • 05: Yes we can….Vote for Barack Obama (8)
  • 04: The last recession
  • 03: As usual Frank Rich says things so much better than I can
  • 01: Go out walking–fiction
  • 01: Proud to vote for a man on Super Tuesday

January 2008

  • 31: Voyeur in New York
  • 31: A meme again–two parts are new to me
  • 30: 3WW–approach, bottle, smooth–fiction. Second Choice
  • 30: 3WW–approach, bottle, smooth–fiction.
  • 29: Some might think otherwise but I think of myself as a writer
  • 28: Tangled in cords (1)
  • 27: About some articles in The New York Times and moi
  • 26: One of the big reasons I'm moving to The Grand Strand–two actually; they voted for Obama
  • 26: 2088
  • 23: Since College….
  • 23: 3WW-breath scattered tomorrow: fiction: Hollywood Lives (16)
  • 22: Pro Choice
  • 19: 1/20/09–FREEDOM IN THE USA (6)
  • 18: Economic Stimulus?
  • 18: There are times I feel so angry
  • 18: Please read my other blog
  • 16: 3WW: awkward Kitchen obsessed fiction: Channeling Ava Gardner (15)
  • 16: 2074
  • 15: 2073
  • 15: I don't know why I wrote such a political rant
  • 15: 2071
  • 13: Blame it on the Republicans
  • 12: Hard Wired Brains
  • 09: This blog….
  • 09: 3WW: Colliding Worlds; chapter 17; gossip, naive, station
  • 08: In 2008
  • 07: The party's over
  • 06: Sunday in the news, and Courting Destiny tells our ideal presidential ticket
  • 04: Uh, so I have this disability and an apartment to sell…
  • 02: 3WW–Colliding Worlds chapter 16–button, luck, pretend

December 2007

  • 30: And I begin a new life
  • 28: Wow it's a New Year
  • 26: 3WW: Colliding Worlds: Chapter 15: Curious, Eventually, shower.
  • 25: 3WW–Colliding Worlds: Chapter fourteen
  • 23: Dear Me and Moi (12)
  • 20: My left brain or do I mean my right brain?
  • 18: Merry Christmas etc (7)
  • 17: The girl who threw the legendary parties
  • 12: 3WWW: Colliding Worlds–chapter 13; closing, headlights, virtual (16)
  • 10: A Day Like Any Other
  • 09: The Last Thing I'm in the Mood for is the Christmas War
  • 08: Apropos of Nothing
  • 06: 2020
  • 04: 3WW: absent, notebook, persuade; Colliding Worlds: Chapter 12
  • 03: Uptown girl on a downtown train (8)
  • 01: Of cigarettes and other addictions (15)

November 2007

  • 27: 3WW: Colliding Worlds…:Afford, cigarette, dim; a psychological sexual suspense novel being written online: chapter 10 (17)
  • 27: New York Voyeur
  • 25: Buyer Beware; be wary; psycho killer
  • 23: Colliding Worlds: Chapter 9 (1)
  • 23: Colliding Worlds–fiction: chapter 8–background
  • 20: Trailer Park Princess of Riverside Drive and Proud of it (8)
  • 19: Only The Doorman Knows Her Name–card in Barnes & Noble
  • 18: Be still my heart: Frank Rich on how Judith Regan can possibly bring down Giuliani
  • 16: When I was very young. Then I was a redhead.
  • 14: 3WW–Icy, pause, train: Colliding Worlds
  • 14: Do not believe Rudy's commercial
  • 13: A roar for powerful words
  • 11: clinical depression
  • 09: Read my fiction!
  • 07: 3WW–compensate, modern, radio: Colliding Worlds; fiction–chapter 6
  • 07: Colliding Worlds–chapter 5–background
  • 05: Stay or Go?

October 2007

  • 31: 3WW–phone, stumbled, windy: Colliding Worlds-
  • 30: Domestic Violence Month
  • 28: Sunday in the city with Frank Rich and apartment update
  • 25: Levon Helm and The American Spirit (6)
  • 23: 3WW: care unexpected weekend
  • 21: My online novel
  • 20: Color me….
  • 17: 3WW: field, hide, second
  • 16: One Bedroom; one and half marble baths; hot Upper West Side location and the detritus of my life
  • 14: Blogfriday on Sunday: How reading Clapton made me think of my own life
  • 10: The blogging grifter
  • 10: 3WW: initial, knock, weather
  • 08: Excerpt: Space chick with the Electric Hair
  • 03: Journey BlogFriday Crossroads
  • 03: feather, misplaced, useless 3WW fiction
  • 01: You are so beautiful (5)

September 2007

  • 29: Harder than I thought
  • 28: Personal Development, Non Verbal Learning Disorder and Me (15)
  • 27: Sleep Deprived! (6)
  • 26: 3WW eager, caught, perfume
  • 25: My almost, not, perfect blog post
  • 19: Interview with Jancee Dunn
  • 16: Buggers in his nose
  • 14: Personal Development, yes
  • 11: out of words
  • 11: On blogging, viral marketing, SEO etc, yeah right
  • 10: 9/11 doesn't belong to me or you
  • 10: 1872
  • 09: I worship at the alter of Frank Rich
  • 05: 3WW, pound, sunglasses, wild
  • 03: Things to do on a perfect weather Labor Day
  • 02: Five Things and more (4)

August 2007

  • 29: 3WW: forgotten, hotel, obscure
  • 28: A day less than two years later.
  • 26: A city by rivers and a city by the sea
  • 24: Grace Paley
  • 22: 3WW corridor, linger, subtle
  • 22: 3WW–no words yet–fiction (7)
  • 20: I have a sense of humor about myself. I guess I must because–redux
  • 19: Bliss is; Bliss isn't
  • 17: Soppy post alert–not this the one below (7)
  • 16: For my mother
  • 15: taxi, burning, quietly 3WW fiction (15)
  • 13: HAPPY BLOGGIVERSARY TO ME, but uh….and Karl Rove resigned: coincidence?
  • 11: I was a high school dork and am kind of proud of that High School Confidential
  • 08: Son of Sam was an adoptee who was also a serial killer
  • 08: Hey would the New York Post lie? (6)
  • 07: Ed Anger dies
  • 06: Labor Unions for bloggers
  • 02: Tell me I misread this
  • 01: Gray, Fathom, Memphis-3WW fiction

July 2007

  • 31: Summers with Seven
  • 30: Hard Spent Karma–a post from November 2005
  • 28: Back into hiding
  • 24: This Blog named Courting….
  • 23: President Bush's wise leadership and democracy
  • 22: I was a teen age rebel and uh, oh yeah, adopted
  • 20: I really don't like Harry Potter (11)
  • 18: A letter from my father on my 16th birthday. (18)
  • 16: Adoption and Google
  • 15: Organizing my files has caused the detritus of my life to come tumbling–with an anti-Google diatribe addition (12)
  • 11: Private, Crossed, Rinse 3WW fiction and an impeachment plea that is totally not fiction. Though our government might be
  • 08: My 1776th post
  • 05: 1985: Mixed blessings
  • 04: The Boho's return home
  • 02: Happy Fourth of July

June 2007

  • 30: I love New York in summer. Yes I do
  • 27: Envelope, negligible, resent: 3WW fiction
  • 24: Back to reality (18)
  • 17: Happy Father's Day; Happy Summer
  • 15: Days like today
  • 14: My love/hatred of comments
  • 13: Sun fried
  • 10: Doug speaks
  • 07: Having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave
  • 01: Friday Flashback

May 2007

  • 30: For Cooper on her 22nd
  • 30: stroke, summer, leave 3WW fiction (13)
  • 29: Southern Comfort
  • 27: Memorial Day
  • 25: Friday Flashback–Lucia and I go walking and one of us can't do that without getting into troubl
  • 24: A New York story, or three, of sorts (6)
  • 23: filthy, guess, convenience: 3WW fiction
  • 22: My Sally Brompton Horoscope: It is so Me (7)
  • 21: 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
  • 19: On May 20, 1979, she walked into a club she knew well and her life changed forever
  • 18: Friday Flashback: Summer of Sam (6)
  • 15: Today is the day
  • 15: HAPPY BIRTHDAY WOMBAT
  • 13: A trip to Broadway (12)
  • 11: That Day–fiction
  • 10: Ten things (9)
  • 09: packed, cozy, anticipation 3WW fiction
  • 08: If the firemen hadn't been there…
  • 07: 1670
  • 05: Hit and Run: fiction
  • 02: Bare, rumble, watch 3WW–fiction still on Wednesday–non fiction post below
  • 02: Bare, rumble, watch 3WW on Wednesday–not fiction
  • 01: When you live in Manhattan the only way to stay is to leave

April 2007

  • 29: The Loneliness of the short distance writer
  • 27: My built in guilt meter and MIT (10)
  • 25: background, swings, against-3WW on Wednesday, fiction
  • 24: Don't spam on me and call it….
  • 22: Like A Virgin
  • 20: Sun shines over Manhattan
  • 18: Loving Zachary
  • 18: 3 WWW–pitch, exit, low–fiction
  • 16: They say I can't tell a story in under a thousand words
  • 15: Book store closings, mysteries, memoirs and mayhem
  • 13: On Taxes, testaments, tithes, oh I hate April (4)
  • 12: It's only a blog, but I like it
  • 12: It's just a blog, but I like it
  • 11: Lost waves lined–3WW–fiction
  • 08: Spring Fever (11)
  • 07: Sarah's-Place
  • 06: Stumbling and struggling
  • 06: Lost Weekend
  • 05: Children before adults? (12)
  • 04: Miles, Voice, Holding–3WW fiction
  • 02: Hello

March 2007

  • 30: The Weeds of yesteryear: last post
  • 28: Easily, shattered, type: 3WW second choice; fiction
  • 27: Easily, type, shattered. 3 Word Wednesday on Wednesday: fiction
  • 26: From Sheepshead Bay to Coney Island
  • 22: Lounged, slice, knot—3WW–you have your choice of two fiction stories
  • 20: My blog's getting a makeover
  • 19: Back up your birth control
  • 18: They say we went to war for them
  • 15: 3WW hoarse bended, downtown–a romantic story, fiction
  • 14: Hoarse, Bended, Downtown–3WW on Wednesday night–fiction
  • 13: First came November
  • 10: Courting's getting a makeover; and Google and significant exes
  • 07: Three Word Wednesday: crowd, sneak, raging–fiction
  • 06: Yes, yes, yes, yes, four out of five counts ain't bad
  • 04: my life; the true beginning

February 2007

  • 28: Tile, scarce, lieu–three word Wednesday on Wednesday night–fiction
  • 27: Deleted Post and motivation
  • 26: Purple Haze
  • 23: Dead White Men, one very alive one, and some women (4)
  • 22: wilted drawer ink–3WW fiction
  • 21: Because she can, not
  • 20: Rejection and Tom Waits
  • 19: things I did when I was supposed to be studying
  • 17: My right nostril
  • 15: carriage, silent, haste, 3WW (three word Wednesday) on Thursday evening
  • 13: I am firmly anti-Valentines Day
  • 11: What is it about Valentines Day?
  • 07: Drum, Secrecy, ante–Three Word Wednesday–fiction (15)
  • 05: Electric haired chick
  • 05: Reading Books (6)
  • 03: Thoughts the week after a blog free week

January 2007

  • 31: Three word Wednesday: professor, stairs, unlikely: Part two: Marly meets detectives
  • 29: The Cabby and his bible–originally posted on 2/15/06 under a different title
  • 26: JUST ONE; NO HON*: STEAM RISES
  • 14: While Pia is playing (21)
  • 12: National Delurking Week
  • 09: decisive, brands, pen, bands–three word Wednesday–fiction (16)
  • 06: New York in 72 degrees in January–revised
  • 03: Secretary, Noose, Heel–three word Wednesday, fiction
  • 02: Watched a movie on TV read the credits and had a wow the past is here moment

December 2006

  • 30: My old block–with a Wendy Wasserstein video and tribute of sorts
  • 28: Happy New Year: Revised, there's always something to add, and add 12/30 (10)
  • 27: Three word Wednesday–snapped, hill, leather–fiction (8)
  • 25: Obsessive computer use yet to be classified as a clinical mental illness (9)
  • 23: Pre-Christmas Eve ramblings
  • 21: sand, rush, handle–three word Wednesday on Thursday–fiction
  • 19: Email to a friend: Coming out; no not that way
  • 19: Building update; life one too
  • 16: Ding Dong the witch was fired.
  • 15: Life and a possible joke
  • 13: Page Inquire twirl: three word Wednesday: True fiction (13)
  • 12: Heart Break
  • 10: My horoscope
  • 08: This schedule thing (7)
  • 07: Courting Destiny photoblog: Good bye schedule, and uh panic in my mind
  • 05: Three word Wednesday on Tuesday night: snow, red, curb; a fiction exercise
  • 03: Steam Heat (16)

November 2006

  • 30: You respect me in the morning, I think
  • 28: Net, lock, flipped: an exercise in fiction; three word Wednesday
  • 26: Winner takes all: New York in 2006
  • 24: The sun came out
  • 22: A year of blogging: from The First Amendment to Intelligent Design
  • 22: smoke, first, rolling: an exercise in fiction
  • 21: On the cancellation of OJ Simpson's book
  • 20: On the first day of Thanksgiving week
  • 19: Cathartic Experience? I don't think so
  • 16: Five word fiction exercise: wander, porcelain, constantly, spin, prescription (12)
  • 15: stool, dancing, flushed: a three word Wednesday fiction exercise
  • 12: Psycho Killer/Serial Mom (20)
  • 10: 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 (12)
  • 07: On a night like tonight almost anything can happen–my first podcast (15)
  • 06: Times Select Week (6)
  • 05: Here's Frank Rich, and Ted Haggard
  • 03: the world doesn't revolve around me, but it really should sometimes
  • 02: Money and the New Yorker

October 2006

  • 31: Daddy’s Home
  • 31: Happy Halloween
  • 29: The husband-stealer of Independence Avenue (12)
  • 27: A question
  • 25: Not about Boston Legal
  • 22: Walking Down Some Roads With My Mom Who is Probably Wondering Why I"m Not Out Protesting
  • 19: Capote is God: a fiction exercise: revised
  • 17: Cooper and the Wombat on mastication (14)
  • 15: My Mom (15)
  • 13: Roasting Pia (33)
  • 11: Live on the other side of town
  • 11: Sex, Lies, and Lawyers
  • 09: Finally can celebrate my Mom's life
  • 08: Land of fresh starts
  • 06: Weekend Update
  • 06: Splurge, alley, laugh
  • 05: Do we leave the past behind or do we go to our class reunion?
  • 04: Memory Motel/The Devil and the anti-Beatle
  • 03: Guilt: a fiction exercise.
  • 02: Making your resume a masterpiece

September 2006

  • 29: Miss Nona
  • 28: Eugene
  • 27: Give me that old time religion
  • 26: About Courting (6)
  • 25: Back for the day: Days of Awe
  • 25: The New Normal, Maybe
  • 22: Dynasty and MizB (22)
  • 21: Coming Home (8)
  • 20: The Devil Blues
  • 19: A Perfumista's View of the Big Apple
  • 18: Zenformation and the Art of Random Sexual Talking Points
  • 15: Weekend at Pia's (14)
  • 14: On the subject of place in writing
  • 13: Anti-Semitic Comments Seem To Be The Hardest Words–Janet 9/13
  • 12: Aces and Eights
  • 10: Rapprochement: a different kind of 9/11 story–with a prequel (14)
  • 07: Rain, boxes, rusty: three words; an exercise in fiction–with addendums
  • 06: Somewhere over the rainbow, or Brooklyn
  • 04: When the sun used to shine, last year (12)
  • 01: Perfect Post

August 2006

  • 31: Contemplation: a writing exercise
  • 30: Stuyvesant Town for sale, second & third edition
  • 29: Walking to New Orleans
  • 29: And the sun begins to come out: Pia's New York; and the sun went in; a New York story
  • 28: Blogger in need of bloggers
  • 26: Stolen fortune cookie, and many rainy Sunday ruminations. Totally revised. Not better but revised. Less self-indulgent. (7)
  • 25: Mayhem on West 35th Street
  • 23: About not blogging….and Castro and my Dad (11)
  • 22: I survived two weeks at The Bates Hotel (8)
  • 18: Obsession (18)
  • 14: My two year Bloggiversary: Back in another less innocent life, my first blog post 8/14/04
  • 12: 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
  • 10: This Magic Moment with a blogging addendum
  • 09: Breaking my own rule
  • 08: Security
  • 08: Really did find my home
  • 07: Got to dance, uh got to blog, no got to write
  • 06: Gone Wave Walking, maybe
  • 04: Breaking into Blogging: the class–a true first draft by moi–with an addition
  • 02: Six months of heaven

July 2006

  • 30: I interview me, again, and will probably regret it
  • 28: Moon from my living room
  • 26: Told many secrets but kept his own (6)
  • 26: Reopened Comments, revised but not one of my two hundred best (7)
  • 23: Belles of the Brawls & the mosh pit of issues, revised
  • 20: The City Where I live (17)

June 2006

  • 28: I was on Broadway and thought of a story
  • 27: Then the sun came out
  • 26: Dear Blog (5)
  • 24: The Huffington Post Asks Me to do Them a Favor. Really (15)
  • 23: Teeth as a metaphor for life, and then there's politics
  • 22: William Shatner, William Shatner–addendum, of course
  • 20: Honeysuckle
  • 19: She would be the Spawn of Satan only Satan is too good for her
  • 18: My Father's Daughter
  • 17: My dad’s story about my adoption; originally put in Courting on 6/21/05
  • 16: About bloggers, participatory democracy and political blogging
  • 14: Declutter
  • 13: Back to birth mother talk, eventually
  • 11: What's the point of having a blog if I can't complain?
  • 09: BIO Changes
  • 09: A tale of two stores: Tiffany's and Alexander's: from the courting archives
  • 07: The List
  • 06: There's a reason I gave my blog its name, but damn if I know it (9)
  • 05: They Really Did forget Poland (14)
  • 03: The Icons of New York are watching
  • 02: A snowflake; from the archives
  • 01: Microsoft doesn't own the world, but my building does own me

May 2006

  • 31: Born Legal, revised again, because Alice, you're worth it
  • 30: She's High Maintenance But Thinks That She's Low Maintenance: Stolen from a TV season finale
  • 28: A Memorial Day Post (22)
  • 26: The eternal pull of the universe calling (8)
  • 23: Visiting dead parents
  • 23: Chutzpah with an adoption addendum
  • 22: Hurts to live in New York
  • 19: Triple Sneezer (15)
  • 18: If our legacies are based on how our kids turned out, I'm doomed having never been a parent.
  • 17: On Personal Responsibility, and anything else that I feel like talking about
  • 16: Southern Relations (13)
  • 15: The girlfriend break-up fight and other ramblings.
  • 12: Staircase to Life–with an addendum (22)
  • 11: I was harassed by a 74 year old geriatric who needed a hip replacement
  • 10: As the first cut is the deepest so is the first draft, with an addendum (16)
  • 07: California Noir Dreaming, or maybe it's Pulp Dreaming–from the Courting Archives (13)
  • 04: Friday's post on Thursday. Like to be early if I'm not late. Totally revised (20)
  • 03: More about recent revelations–on being an adult in the millennium (14)
  • 01: Back to the beginning (26)

April 2006

  • 29: Rove Rage
  • 28: Footprints
  • 28: My Mainstream Media Press.
  • 26: Daddy’s home (18)
  • 25: One hit wonder (11)
  • 24: Love Little Luce
  • 22: My life would be a lot easier if… (13)
  • 21: No strike! (11)
  • 20: Flight 93–the movie; 9/11 the life style
  • 19: Prelude to a doorman's strike
  • 17: A party on my block
  • 16: More shameless self promotion & seventeen months ago this past Friday….
  • 13: The Oldest Child on The LIRR–from April, 2005
  • 13: Happy Passover; Happy Easter, and if I left any out, Happy Spring
  • 12: Why I bought my apartment
  • 11: The Patron Never Saint of blog causes. BIO edition
  • 10: More on blogging, pages that I have made, and a political statement
  • 09: The Truth is…. (9)
  • 08: Needle Park then and now (4)
  • 07: Friday in the blogosphere (8)
  • 06: My cover
  • 06: This isn't today's post!!!!!!!!!
  • 05: A post about nothing, and maybe everything.
  • 04: What was William Shatner best in? And favorite Twilight Zones: Just curious plus more (30)
  • 03: The 9/11 Tapes

March 2006

  • 31: I never cried for my father
  • 30: Introducing Alana Shore
  • 29: Spam, Spyware and scummy scum–a March Madness morality tale
  • 28: My family, redeux
  • 26: This ones for my dad–it's not a Pia and daddy post
  • 24: If you're new to Courting
  • 23: Sand Castle called pity
  • 19: Why I don't write much about being adopted.
  • 17: As Pia turns
  • 17: Doorman phobia and other confessions, kind of
  • 16: It's a Dogs City (14)
  • 15: Leaving on a jet plane–to get my brain back
  • 14: Let me never write about being adopted
  • 13: Best Indie Cult Blog Names–a contest (10)
  • 10: The Bells did toll that day
  • 09: Finding light through the circles (9)
  • 07: A Jew who rocks and reggaes, and teenagers who shall lead the way (18)
  • 05: Koufax Awards (15)
  • 05: Compulsive Blogging While Anxious (3)
  • 05: VOTE FOR COURTING IN THE KOUFAK'S: BIO ALSO
  • 04: Sweet mystery of life, and more.
  • 03: My newest avocation
  • 02: Zachary and I; for the first long while.
  • 01: Pia and Zachary show their true colors

February 2006

  • 28: A last conversation
  • 27: What does freedom mean to you? And other things.
  • 26: Something to do on a Sunday
  • 25: The Single most boring person alive
  • 24: Might visit South Dakota to protest
  • 23: The other 9/11 families
  • 23: Bloggers Wall, and Boston Legal (8)
  • 22: My Gmail Account
  • 22: I WAS A DENTAL BULIMIC* AND OTHER SORTA RICH GIRL WOES
  • 21: BIO HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A KOUFAX ALSO
  • 20: The Summer I turned eighteen (16)
  • 19: First a post on doing nothing, then a test about me!!!!!!!!!!!
  • 17: Being Adopted
  • 16: BIO, Blogging and Me
  • 15: Another sunny Tuesday
  • 14: A magazine discovers blogging and I want it to be summer in Riverside Park
  • 13: Body Armor, Michael Moore,and BIO
  • 13: When Lucia took a cab in a blizzard to be snowed in with me and Patrick
  • 13: Snow storm (8)
  • 11: When I owned the world
  • 10: A cold day on the Upper West Side
  • 09: A Blogger's night
  • 08: A brilliantly sunny Tuesday in New York
  • 07: Someday I will play Sally Field as interpreted by Parker Posey (17)
  • 06: Confessions of an obsessive-compulsive blogger
  • 05: Will, Grace, The Kiss, and Lucia
  • 03: Somethings you probably don't know about me, and why should you? Or care?
  • 02: My Day, just a bit of it!
  • 01: Tuesday night, TV and other things

January 2006

  • 31: Views
  • 29: Bloggers Banquet and Ball
  • 27: How do you fact check a life? (15)
  • 26: 96 teardrops (12)
  • 25: The hammer and….
  • 24: Through the Park(s)
  • 23: The third time that I said yes
  • 21: Lucia, Rafe and Pia; girls night in, a 20th anniversary of sorts
  • 20: Mixed Missed Signals
  • 19: moi (12)
  • 18: Boston Legal, Aspergers and moi
  • 17: Michiko Kakutani
  • 17: Me speak New Yawk today; unfortunately not a Sedaris satire
  • 15: And people say that living a virtual life is boring
  • 14: If Oprah says it's okay to distort truth in memoirs
  • 12: Housekeeping! (8)
  • 11: Half a moustache; my father asks a question
  • 11: Me and moi
  • 10: Not a Lifetime movie of the week; me and Aspergers
  • 09: Lucia and Pia go back to high school, see an exhibit and learn a bit about life
  • 08: Marty Tankleff (11)
  • 05: Vanity trumps narcissism
  • 05: Resolutions or goals?
  • 04: Baby boomer blogs round the blogosphere in search of worlds yet undiscovered, revised edition
  • 03: descriptions, digital cameras, and more descriptions
  • 02: Larry David discusses Brokeback Mountain (10)
  • 01: The Obligatory Best of Post, part one

December 2005

  • 31: Happy New Year!
  • 29: Lucia and I walk down Lafayette Street and one of us gets into trouble
  • 29: Destiny comes Courting
  • 28: Five or more totally weird and embarrassing things about me
  • 28: A neurotic's guide to blog awards
  • 26: Thoughts during a very long and rainy wait for a cab
  • 25: Happy holidays
  • 25: Doug Drones On: A Chritmas story
  • 24: Runny right nostrils and gift bags
  • 22: I have a conversation with myself
  • 22: A story
  • 21: Strike at my house
  • 21: The Subway Motorman (5)
  • 20: Oh Blog I just want to go to bed, without thinking about….
  • 20: My first ever contest
  • 19: Part-ee season
  • 19: This is where my gratefulness ends
  • 18: Rumors to the contrary, I'm not Al Franken in drag
  • 17: Friday night musings
  • 16: Pre-Strike Blues
  • 15: My life at this moment
  • 14: Don't blame me or the ACLU
  • 14: A creepy story for a cold night
  • 13: Fatal Friendship
  • 11: The Shower (9)
  • 10: Cable, TIVO, DVR's, TV & me (5)
  • 09: Confusion Reigns
  • 08: Ed Sullivan!!!!!
  • 08: Yesterday
  • 07: Back to New York
  • 05: Brand names and tipping
  • 04: My rape (26)
  • 03: Reasons for living a long life
  • 01: Red Ribbon
  • 01: Six bazillion degrees, ah you know (8)

November 2005

  • 29: And the Production Assistant Rules
  • 28: Pia learns something new
  • 26: Miracle on 34th Street (34)
  • 24: A Thanksgiving Story of sorts
  • 23: Hard Spent Karma
  • 22: Upper West Side Buildings (14)
  • 20: Noise Complaint (16)
  • 19: Family Heritage Albumn
  • 18: Life and Ming Vases
  • 17: This would be the most shameless of self-promotion had I had anything to do with it!
  • 16: Just one hon'?
  • 15: Nothing noble about me
  • 14: God protects drunks and other nursing home ruminations
  • 12: How I began at Social Security
  • 10: 157,000 page views; a year on BE
  • 10: Boston Legal recap and things about Long Island and the election (8)
  • 08: Zacahary causes Pia to become allergic to her favorite sun tan oil.
  • 07: after the marathon
  • 07: Return to McCarthyism, The Patriot Act, Christians and Jews (12)
  • 04: Are bloggers the new Edward R Murrow? (23)
  • 03: More about Boston Legal, and Bring it on!
  • 03: The Bitch in the Penthouse
  • 02: Boston Legal and the war in Iraq (10)
  • 02: My parents visit
  • 01: A high school reunion, sensory audio perception and some questions

October 2005

  • 31: Blame it on my dad; every thing's his fault!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • 30: Comfort Zone
  • 29: it's my party and I can gloat if I want to
  • 27: Cream reminded me of this Traffic/Blind Faith story
  • 26: Wednesday Wandering through the Blogosphere
  • 25: I am not my blog
  • 24: Do you pay for content?
  • 24: 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
  • 23: Riffing on Max's letter to me on my 16th birthday
  • 22: Bring it on! Shades of Gray
  • 21: A Confession–a classic Pia in life story
  • 20: Kvetching, construction and Boston Legal
  • 20: An Internet Joke
  • 19: whining about blogging and real estate
  • 18: So you think I’m superficial; do you really think I care? (19)
  • 16: Electric haired chick
  • 14: Google blog land (10)
  • 12: let's not get bored of trying to help (13)
  • 12: How I inadvertently began a war
  • 11: Four Confessions
  • 10: New feature on Bring it on!
  • 10: Days of Awe
  • 09: Indict Karl Rove; and I don't know what to call Bloomberg
  • 08: I'm so confused
  • 07: Sex and me (9)
  • 06: Phone Calls
  • 06: Going on with Zachary
  • 05: On the way to the challah land
  • 04: Indian Summer, part two
  • 03: Indian Summer

September 2005

  • 30: my mother's sisters
  • 30: Back on line
  • 29: on aging: a challenge
  • 28: Very late in the night, at home
  • 27: Boston Legal (5)
  • 26: I broke my little toe and keep on getting kicked off the internet, and a Lucia in pain story (11)
  • 25: Your such a nigger
  • 24: Success
  • 23: listen to the tape; the aftermath of the Katrina fiasco belongs soley with the federal governmme
  • 22: In Bush's dream land that we allow to go on and on…
  • 21: Higher Ground (5)
  • 20: My telephone
  • 19: Irrational
  • 18: A Joke
  • 17: Blame it on Katrina
  • 16: DNA tells a story
  • 15: You thought that Google began blogger for fun?
  • 14: Daddy's present (8)
  • 13: 90 degrees! and the new TV season is beginning
  • 12: The 9/11 post (7)
  • 11: See The Bastard's 9/11 tribute
  • 11: The last lady in America–my father's daughter (5)
  • 10: Impeach Bush; it's the least you can do
  • 10: We the people
  • 09: Want this week to end (7)
  • 08: If New York doesn't have an evacuation program why should New Orleans have had one?
  • 08: Been down so long… (4)
  • 07: Werewolves of New Orleans
  • 06: The Gambler’s Woman
  • 05: yesterday, today and tomorrow
  • 04: How did Trent Lott Vote? (4)
  • 04: Walking from New Orleans
  • 03: Gawd Pia can't you just be sad for the poor people who are trapped in New Orleans?
  • 02: A community of bloggers and… (10)
  • 02: Need info about Bogalusa LA
  • 01: The hurricane

August 2005

  • 31: Daddy was in an MTV commercial
  • 31: Unbelievable!!!!!!!
  • 30: Bogalusa LA (2)
  • 30: How Diana Ross changed my life
  • 29: Degrees of Separation
  • 28: What's the matter with aminister in Kansas?
  • 27: Read me on Blogcritics.org
  • 26: Summer and a blog retweak; mold farm revisited; the man upstairs and the coop wars.
  • 26: Short road to nowhere (7)
  • 25: Spamming Links
  • 24: It's beautiful outdoors!
  • 23: Sam’ s summer–summer of 77
  • 23: Bring it back on! (5)
  • 22: Coathanger days should be over unless you're playing Joan Crawford
  • 22: my photo blog (6)
  • 20: I finally tell the joke Zachary told me the day we met (10)
  • 19: How my parents met
  • 18: Alone again
  • 18: Grassroots
  • 16: Zachary drove a cab
  • 14: Housekeeping, My family; myself (6)
  • 12: Coming home, part three (12)
  • 11: Change at Atlanta; change at Jamica
  • 10: My Yiddishe mama, sure! (7)
  • 09: A totally self absorbed post. Why? Because I'm worth it! (7)
  • 08: A prequel and a sequel to Zachray
  • 07: Hey Good Lookin'
  • 06: Love, lust or something like that
  • 05: A night at the 140 Club
  • 04: A trip to DC with a detour..
  • 03: Rumors (18)
  • 02: Horoscopes
  • 01: If our legacies are based on how our kids turned out, I'm doomed having never been a parent. (25)

July 2005

  • 31: And his name is (17)
  • 29: Reasons I fell in love with the bum who really needs a new name (20)
  • 28: Nice girls go to heaven: Good girls go everywhere (9)
  • 27: Walking down Madison on a late July afternoon, Pia thinks about the past
  • 26: Pia goes all over the world to apologize
  • 25: Lucia and Pia finally become friends
  • 23: Pia and Lucia meet but do not become friends, yet
  • 22: Random searches, pharmacies, the Beresfeld, and my grandmother, in stories that are random
  • 21: it's a beautiful day; so why did I dream about Woody Allen? (16)
  • 20: It was my birthday and I had a revelation
  • 19: Lucia and Pia walk up Lafayette Street and can’t even do that without one of us getting into trouble (27)
  • 18: The least cool person in the world speaks
  • 17: Four days in July (5)
  • 16: Weekend update: coop war unmasked
  • 15: The first time I met Rafe
  • 14: Key search
  • 13: The Boys of East 106th Street (6)
  • 12: Billy Joel and me (17)
  • 12: Obit for Jim Haskins who tried to make up for the lack of children's books about Black kids
  • 12: Moxie has it
  • 11: We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming!
  • 10: Saturday night/Sunday morning Ad dissection
  • 09: Coop Living
  • 08: Return to the mold farm, part 100
  • 07: Sad and Strange Day
  • 06: The return of the mold farm and other things.
  • 05: Sunday in the park with me
  • 02: Blogging revolution

June 2005

  • 30: Mold Farm, Part Deux; blogging is weird
  • 29: July 23, 2005, and after 9/11 (12)
  • 28: mold farm
  • 27: Oh yes, of course California was as affected by 9/11 as Manhattan was (19)
  • 26: Multi subject hot Saturday with a side of Karl Rove (6)
  • 22: Blogging Jews
  • 22: My dad’s story about my parents feelings upon adopting me.
  • 21: The sisterhood of the traveling picture
  • 19: A tale of two stores: Tiffany's and Alexanders
  • 19: Bushes go wild
  • 19: But first a word from our regularly…
  • 18: Summer of Terri
  • 17: Electric Haired Chick makes her return: yes that was me in a large magazine
  • 15: Conformity rules
  • 15: Life's weird
  • 14: On Patriotism, Blogging and New York
  • 11: Saturday–thinking about Shelby (5)
  • 10: my office hours are… (11)
  • 08: Age of self help
  • 08: Reporting your neighbor for smoking pot is way different than reporting real crimes.
  • 06: Cousin Brucie
  • 04: Can't keep quiet about this country
  • 01: Mysteries of youth

May 2005

  • 31: Blind Faith (9)
  • 30: Memorial Day Weekend Blues Part Two
  • 29: 26 years ago a boy went missing, and coincidentally I fell in love
  • 26: Beyond ranting
  • 23: Family Reunion
  • 15: Pouting Pia pries pridefully
  • 13: Papa don't let your daughter…
  • 07: New York Doll

April 2005

  • 27: Being Me (7)
  • 26: comments (8)
  • 25: Jury Duty!
  • 23: The oldest child on the LIRR (3)
  • 23: just wondering
  • 21: When Shelby was my best friend (in the girl category)
  • 20: Clueless , about blogging, in New York
  • 18: I learned about blogging as a community
  • 18: A walker's revolution.
  • 15: Tax day!
  • 15: Savannah Falls Too
  • 13: One ring
  • 12: The Countess celebrates an anniversary
  • 12: my e-Bay account, sure (11)
  • 12: Symphony for Cigarettes
  • 09: Saturday morning (2)
  • 09: things I do when I'm anxious
  • 08: My Manicurist
  • 07: My new sneakers and sandals! (13)
  • 03: An e-mail story
  • 02: Terrazzo tiled pharmacy, with the world's best candles, in the center of the Upper West Side
  • 01: The only joke I can tell

March 2005

  • 30: Oh Toto there's no place like home
  • 28: Terri's not in pain (14)
  • 26: Terri (13)
  • 22: comments (8)
  • 22: A personal story
  • 17: Leaving on a jet plane
  • 17: Anger doesn't become me
  • 15: Oh Maureen Dowd, maybe we don't want to be you
  • 14: weather report/met him at the limelight
  • 13: going fishing
  • 11: In a New York Moment
  • 11: The Man Upstairs
  • 10: Born to Blog
  • 09: Easy to hate
  • 09: 26 degrees feels like 12
  • 08: Yesterday
  • 08: Truly Disclaiming My Life Away
  • 07: Why I don't practice Social Work (9)
  • 07: Prelude to rules of the road
  • 07: Lucia speaks
  • 07: Ciao Cao, new spam, and watch me sputter!
  • 06: Only a Muslim is capable of hating this much–and if you believe that you're not my kind of American (37)
  • 06: Apology to an old friend
  • 05: Sorry Cao sometimes a murder is just a murder
  • 05: Um and uh girls
  • 04: Faith based initiatives–a time that has come? (10)
  • 03: Comments back and running–over 25,000 hits since 11/13 (19)
  • 03: The coop war. (3)
  • 03: Some questions about faith based programs
  • 01: The power of words
  • 01: Felt like I wasn't observing Thanksgiving! Oh James Spader I missed you last night.

February 2005

  • 27: I won't be watching the Oscars
  • 26: If I'm not a linear thinker, must I be psychologically impaired, and a member of the far left? (20)
  • 25: Fiction or Fact?
  • 24: Merely Manners
  • 23: Etiquette questions (16)
  • 20: To Mr. Whatever your name is
  • 19: Using my blog to experiment
  • 19: Pity me not, the sequel (2)
  • 15: Anger becomes her: 9/11 & the Florida Election
  • 15: Hating to hate
  • 13: It's starting (15)
  • 12: Teenager tells mom and friend to dress their age
  • 12: Blog on
  • 11: I'm Back
  • 08: workingtitle; workingcopy
  • 05: Sam’s summer: Summer of ’77
  • 03: My super, my building, my mom and me
  • 01: Christmas 1983, The Turnberry Club, Miami

January 2005

  • 07: Cranky Liberal Speaks–my first guest columnist
  • 06: On a roll
  • 06: First Amendment again and again
  • 05: Who's your mommy?
  • 05: Who am I? (1)
  • 03: Courting Destiny Blog : Home
  • 03: Who's your daddy?
  • 01: Conservative no; Christian yes
  • 01: More about me, me, me
  • 01: Last Night Central Park Was Grand. (3)

December 2004

  • 30: Sad starting New Year
  • 29: 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.
  • 28: morals and values–only read this if you're a dictionary freak
  • 28: Moral values–overused and overrated
  • 24: Chase and Me again
  • 24: RudyG's legacy
  • 23: 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
  • 23: 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
  • 23: Bernie quits so that Rudy can run, how noble
  • 22: Fairway and me and the world
  • 22: Jack Newfield
  • 21: Denny Crane
  • 21: Now they're saying Advil's bad. What's next? Santa Claus?
  • 20: Continuing my crush on James Spader
  • 20: I said that the media spins in favor of Bush and Cheney? Me?
  • 20: legalized extortion week
  • 19: Kerik and Bush–a match made by divine intervention and the USA"s biggest tragedy
  • 19: Defensive Offense
  • 18: Shameless Self-Promotion & why I write about NY in the 70's and 80's
  • 18: Will the Jews be blamed? Is a National Religion around the corner?
  • 17: Social Insecurity, Bernard kerik and other ranting
  • 17: Oh my, Bush really isn't living in the real world
  • 16: Losing my store envy
  • 15: more about elder abuse
  • 15: My mind; my blog; my voice
  • 14: Multi-tasking blog
  • 14: Ha? What does this have to do with Bush?
  • 14: Hate mail is so much fun
  • 12: Elder Abuse
  • 12: "C" for clarity
  • 11: Just wondering
  • 11: Brief Encounter
  • 11: Admitting something dangerous
  • 10: Reality becomes her
  • 09: Yesterday
  • 09: Kids say the darndest….
  • 08: Why I don't write about my day
  • 08: What would Shatner do? And why is this country such a mess?
  • 08: Courting Destiny
  • 08: When you're brought up on The New Yorker….
  • 08: James Spader (just once) redeux
  • 07: More Tom Waits
  • 07: James Spader, James Spader, William Shatner, uh Denny Crane, Denny Crane
  • 07: Happy Birthday Tom Waits
  • 06: New Year; New Look; New URL
  • 06: Mom's revenge
  • 05: Ray
  • 05: California Noir Dreaming
  • 03: New Design and bitch fest (a montage)
  • 03: Blogging Blogs
  • 03: Teenage girl without any confidence desired life
  • 03: Rally days
  • 02: Up close and personal
  • 01: A story about the Red Ribbon (1)

November 2004

  • 30: cut, action, delete
  • 29: How I began to become an adult
  • 29: How Diana Ross changed my life
  • 29: Back in the ’80’s daddy was in a MTV commercial
  • 29: City life in the last century
  • 28: Alphapbet Soup and other learning disorders
  • 28: Two percent–kinehora
  • 28: Approximately entitled. An adoption story.
  • 24: Colorblind
  • 19: A seasonal moment (1)
  • 18: Polarization
  • 18: Hope
  • 17: Back in the past
  • 16: Teenage misery
  • 16: semi-luddite
  • 16: Heightened Sense of Insecurity
  • 15: I'm sorry
  • 15: Partial profanity
  • 15: Misery
  • 15: No more
  • 15: If Queens is the new Brooklyn then blogs are….
  • 13: A pharmacy delivery, a coop and a girl
  • 11: In Jesus, we….
  • 10: Heartless Bitches
  • 10: Distracted by Aging–an ellipse rant
  • 09: Something about daddy
  • 09: The penthouse next door, and the super here
  • 03: Okay George
  • 01: Election eve at my building

October 2004

  • 31: Dear John K
  • 25: intervention
  • 16: It's not worth it!

September 2004

  • 29: Punishment & Rewards
  • 29: True crimes and punishment
  • 22: Worthy
  • 22: Ranting on Religion and the Government
  • 12: Jet lagged.
  • 01: 3,000 miles from New York (1)

August 2004

  • 31: Doesn't seem possible
  • 31: Sisters
  • 31: speaking of a revolution–and coincidences
  • 31: R-e-s-p-e-c-t (1)
  • 31: Vacation
  • 30: Today–Ground Zero
  • 29: Another city
  • 14: Scared but bored
  • 13: Hippie Princess
  • 13: Back in another less innocent life (2)

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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.

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