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Hi Deborah,
I read where you wrote on a blog ( Jessica Gottleibs) that you lived in Park Slope Brooklyn. Now you are in LA.
I also lived in Park Slope ( Prospect Ave ). I am an actress/comic and writer.
I moved back to my hometown when my daughter was 4 years old. She was born in Brooklyn. Fast forward 8 years later and the artist in me is so MISERABLE in my small town. I have TRIED to return to NY for the past few years and find it impossible. I am a single mom, and either the apt is too expensive for my budget or the apt is reasonable and the school sucks! My daughter went to ps 154 and I was spoiled.
My question is this: was it difficult to make the leap to move out west??? Strange thing is, Deborah, I KNOW LA is where I should be. And feel now it would be not only great career wise… but a great place to raise Gia ! Yet I am SCARED beyond belief.
Was there ever a fear for you and your family..
DO SHARE !
LOVE your blog..
Peace,
Donza…
Hey Donza–Thanks for reading and reaching out. I’m probably not the best spokesperson on the joys of LA. I moved here about 18 years ago to be with my boyfriend/now husband. But I never really liked LA (except maybe Wednesday when I pretended I was Joan Didion as I did an interview rooftop and poolside at a hotel in West Hollywood). I want to get out of here, but my husband works in film so it’s sort of unlikely we’ll leave any time soon.
If NY feels expensive, LA will too. And it’s the same kind of game with schools. I don’t want to squash your plans, but I’d make sure I have a job lined up and a car before coming here. (Okay, I had neither, but I did have a boyfriend and I didn’t have children.)
I don’t know if any of that helps. Actually, it probably doesn’t. But it depends on what kind of work you do. Sorry the small town has you down. Are you able to do any acting or comedy there? Have you considered starting a podcast? Or a writing group? It’s amazing the way a place can transform when you have a solid creative outlet.
Good luck!
Hi Deborah,
With the utmost of Agape’ love… Happy Valentine’s Day, 2012.
I am a compassionate. I understand the issues of abortion: the support for it, and the opposition against it. True, Roe v. Wade is a law, and it is also the expression of the rights or choices for women, and for families, in a legalized and still daunting battleground of ‘choice’. Most people in this context, call ‘choice’ the power of ‘free will right’ of the woman. In anything, it is failed self-leadership with heightened consequences, good or bad, black or white, cut or dry, and hardly a gray area to speak of when it comes to common ground and compromise.
Yes, I believe red ‘stoplights’ at intersections have green ‘go lights’ too. Many debate in the moral, ethical, and also the legal compasses of the difficult ‘what if’ subjectives: Does ‘red’ really mean ‘stop’? Does ‘green’ really mean ‘go’ ? However, like the idea, ‘No hands in the cookie jar!’ ‘Red’ is ‘red’, ‘stop’ is ‘stop’, and with hands down, rules are meant to be vulnerably broken with the mere basis factor of ‘creative’ thought.
Yes, I believe in the infallible inspiration of the Holy Bible’s original manuscripts. Yes, I believe ‘all’ governments have the ‘dictated privilege’ to conduct their own sometimes ‘darker orders’ solely based on the 13th Chapter of Romans with its preceding ‘in context’ closing verses of the 12th Chapter.
Like ‘free will’ to be rampant and remnant, Pandora’s box has been long opened and regularly rummaged through for those spicy argumentative orts of continued emotional regress. We will all be held accountable.
Like insurance companies in disastrous claims, we all pay their prices for their protections, directly or indirectly, and some more than others. In essence, we are the insured victims of a mafia-type forced accountability shared recovery burden.
The Government grants abortion, for over-population genocide, because it is a God allowed act beyond our comprehension within the means of free will, and latent consequences. We will be held accountable.
The promise is like a father (or mother) whom will justly chasten his (her) children with unrejected love in the reverent shadows of ‘should be’ fearful tremble. And yet, God, to the government, and its people, will hold us all fully accountable with curses, or blessings according to our deeds for not heeding to His absolute truths.
We need to put aside the ugly selfishness, because many times in the heat of ‘he said’ and ‘she said’ discord, the simple peace of over-conceptualized ‘clumsy Tango’ and its forgotten collateral damage clean-up, there often remains a wounded “one tin soldier ( to shamefully) ride away.”
A good action for Planned Parenthood to implement is: 1] a permanent motto to be solely, fully, and unconditionally supportive of a newly and actively applied ‘no abortion’ policy; 2] advocate for a tiny government; 3] apply the needed educations for exponential individual responsibilities; 4] if needed, Bob Barker humans — spay and neuter, or adopt and not kill; 5] make people accountable, with risks more clearly defined than those inherent risks associated to the consumerism and abuses of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs; and 6] with God’s help, a greater nation!
If people want murderous abortions, let them go elsewhere! However, with accountability, let the majority of the people have a Planned Parenthood recreated to thrive independently solely in a new make-over reputation of great morals, ethics, and wholesome family values, inclusive with full-faith trust, and clean support.
I’m not sure how to reply to this. I want to understand your argument. Accountability is a good concept, worthy of promotion. Personally, I don’t want to see organizations like Planned Parenthood stop offering abortions. The results of illegal abortions are horrible and we still don’t have adequate measures to always prevent pregnancy. Unfortunately, their are government officials who are working hard to eradicate birth control as well as abortion.
I think it’s a shame that we are wasting all this time talking about family planning and reproductive freedom when there are so many serious issues facing our country and world. Legislating morals according to a Christian value system goes against the philosophy that this country was founded on. Religious freedom is guaranteed in this country, but that’s never been a call to legislate from a religious agenda.
Thank you for taking the time to read and comment.
Madame!, you have a very renascence style!
Ok, nicely written and covering the main subject about endo and others you written .
Do you need more work, or lets put it this way , how about freelancing for Endofound.org?
Cheers,
Seckin, MD
Deborah,
I just wanted to let you know that I want to keep in touch with you and your blog, but our only form of contact as of late has been either Facebook or here (which I don’t receive notifications at my E-mail address), and I have since deactivated my Facebook account for 90 days to take a break from the great connect/disconnect of social media. In the meantime, I want to give you my e-mail address: xxxxyahoo.com. I hope to share some writing with you as I have been inspired to write more (some of the inspiration has come from your blog among other sources). I hope all is well, so please keep in touch.
Best regards,
Tom