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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

Prologue To A Life

April 23, 2017 By pia

What I hate most: Pity. Pity from others; and self-pity. This isn’t a story about pity. Nor is it a sad story. It is a story about a life, and a woman who began college in 1968, but still thinks she has a lifetime to live. Why say when she began college rather than the year she was born?  1968,… View Post

Pushing when I should be pulling

April 8, 2017 By pia

Push is pull; pull is push. Up is down; down is up. East is….yes, it’s west in my world. If you ask me to push a door I will invariably pull it, and vice versa. Directions—fortunately, we have GPS’s now, and I seriously love getting lost on vacation. Other times, not so much as there’s this thing called “being on time,”… View Post

A Les Mis Day, or how I lost my “perfect” credit over $9.90

March 31, 2017 By pia

My FICO score went down more than 120 points over two missed payments (that I didn’t know I missed as the bill said zero balance) of—-$4.95 a month. Yes this is all over $9.90–with fees and everything else, it came to $30. I found this out because of an alert from Credit Karma. The credit card company I owed this… 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.

Go to archives "August 2004" if you want to begin with the first posts.

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