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The shame of not having a clutter free house

August 6, 2017 By pia

My house isn’t filthy. It’s not as if you walk over messes to get anywhere. It  can look company presentable quickly. But I was used to my house being “the court showplace.”  Just when I was beginning to feel really good about myself came the culture of: If you keep anything on your kitchen counters aside from a Nespresso and… View Post

Circular Swimming

August 4, 2017 By pia

In the year 2017, I had more MRI’s, CTscans, X-rays than in the rest of my life combined. They were all clear. That should make me feel good. Yet it doesn’t as no doctor has been able to pinpoint what is wrong. I have been searching for answers for over four years. Remember the old chestnut?: “How are you?” “Do… View Post

That time a psychologist…..

May 29, 2017 By pia

Ten years ago, sometime in June, I learned something that changed my life forever. At 56, really a month from 57, I first heard about nonverbal learning disorder (NLD), realized that I had it, and had myself diagnosed. The psychiatrist that diagnosed me had known me for 20 years. He was known for his abilities to diagnosis, pick the “right”… View Post

Finding My Mother; My Real (Adoptive) One

May 14, 2017 By pia

My mother was the only person who understood what it felt for me to be adopted. I never struggled with hate or disdain or dislike for my adoptive parents. They were my parents. Period. But I felt that it was my right to find my birth parents. Period. Because there were things I did struggle with: when I was a… View Post

I Believed in Karma

May 10, 2017 By pia

I believed in one thing, and one thing above all, most of my life. I believed in karma. I thought that if you treated people well, and asked for nothing in return, you would end up with a lot. Oh, magical thinking, I should have known better. I was gifted much in life. There is so much I have to… 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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