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Vacation

August 31, 2004 By pia

I wish I were in New York but I’m glad that I’m here. Finally settled down enough to enjoy myself. Maybe I can pretend that New York’s just another city. Not really. I watched CNN for awhile with the sound turned off last night with the sound off (my favorite way to watch CNN) and saw the expression (date?) 9/11…. View Post

Today–Ground Zero

August 30, 2004 By pia

Today I will actually act as if I’m on vacation. Today I won’t try to understand why people think Bush is good. Today I will not listen to news reports that talk about Bush as if he were legally elected and has been a great war time president. Yesterday I began to understand that the further you get from New… View Post

Another city

August 29, 2004 By pia

New York’s in my blood. It’s all I can think about but I fled. I tell myself it’s too see if I can live in another city as far from New York as I can be during a major super exciting event. Maybe that’s the truth; I don’t know. I walked for five hours today; when I wasn’t walking I… View Post

Scared but bored

August 14, 2004 By pia

This is the scariest and most boring summer of my life. Boring because each time that I can actually go somewhere it rains or threatens to. I love sultry sun and sultry humidity, not in the 70’s mold enticing dribble we have learned to live with. (Not.) I know I could live in Florida, and then I’d know what real… View Post

Hippie Princess

August 13, 2004 By pia

At my first college, the fun one, I was officially anointed Hippie Princess one night. My vintage black velvet gown was from Bogie’s in the East Village where if I let Bogie kiss me I’d get two dresses for ten dollars. Bogie was a gross wet kisser, and even in 1968 it wasn’t worth five dollars to me. I don’t… View Post

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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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