I am a transplanted Beverly Hills girl/lady. Two years & change ago, I had a mid-life melt down. More about the melt down another time. Just let it be said, if you are over 40 & in the film/TV business in LA, just head for Forest Lawn Cemetery lie down, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
So, I moved to NYC. Actually I moved to Brooklyn. The ladies on "Sex In The City" had good jobs & shoes, so they could afford to live in NYC. Me, over the bridge was the closest I could get to Manhattan proper.
I live in Kensington. Sounds very posh like Kensington where Princess Di lived. Not even close. But, for this moment it is home.
My neighborhood I am told, was once all Italian & Jewish. Now, not may Italians, a few old Jewish women who have out lived their husbands, a wild mixture of Middle Eastern families who are mostly Muslim (Sunni) & Eastern Europeans who eye you suspiciously. A wee smattering of new Yuppies who cannot afford Park Slope are moving in, because there is talk of "an up & coming area" here & a bleed over of Orthodox Jews from Borough Park 4 blocks away.
There is an unwritten rule that everyone mostly stays & plays with "their own kind" to paraphrase "West Side Story." Me, being from LA, do not follow that rule, think Julie the cruise director on "The Love Boat" & you have my attitude to the neighbors.
So what you will be getting from me are stories, musings & most probably some rants on my recovery & new life.
I hope to entertain you, make you laugh, make you cry & with luck make you think about yourselves & others. I will be totally honest.
I have found out things about myself & life in general since I have been here & some are a rude awaking for a liberal, white girl from an upper class family.
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yes this neighborhood is great... I heard they have amazing stoop sales.....
i live in that neighborhood its great area. There this amazing deli on the corner there with the green sign its called Albemarle foods. They make great soups and Salads, they once made me an Beverly Hills Salad which was amazing. There is also a nice guy that works there name Mohammad he is so adorable and sweet I love him.
i love your new blog and i hope you keep it running. you are a very talented, uh, BARONESS...? groovy. i found you on facebook. and since we're now officially acquainted, i hope you accept my friend request. i've already posted a link to your blog on my facebook & myspace. and i'm not sure what compelled me to IMDB you, but you're definitely a hard act to follow. but DUKES OF HAZZARD?
I, too am over "40" and when I walk into my neighborhood Indian restaurant absolutely no one stops eating or even looks my way. Well, they say there is no culture here in L.A.
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