September 2019
August 2019
August 2018
- 08: Depression Comes Softly (3)
June 2018
- 09: The Power Of Tomorrow (2)
May 2018
January 2018
November 2017
October 2017
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
February 2017
January 2017
- 29: Not a sheep (1)
- 11: #EndTheStigma–Rebecca Massie (4)
December 2016
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
December 2015
November 2015
- 23: Fearing Fear (6)
- 16: Some travel stories, 9/11, Paris and me (3)
October 2015
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
May 2015
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
January 2015
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
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
May 2014
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
March 2013
December 2012
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
March 2012
- 29: Newest Girl (10)
February 2012
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
October 2011
- 31: 7029
- 30: Catching my breath (14)
September 2011
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–this story is in honor of the Soprano's return to HBO
- 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)