Urban Kvetch Time Machine: February 2, 2004

Five years ago, I began this blog. This was the opening post.

Welcome to My Urban Kvetch, a place for me to vent about the issues that clutter my brain as I live my so-called-freelance life in the Big City. I'm all about looking at my experience through the lens of humor, whenever it's possible. Usually, if the experience is bad, it's hard for me to see the funny in it until much later, but I usually come around eventually. I mean, after all, we are talking about someone (me) who was stuck in the subway during the August 14th Blackout, and managed to not completely lose it until she could breathe above-ground air again. That takes some strength of character, and some humor. I wrote my way through it--couldn't have survived without my little notebook. More than AMEX, I don't leave home without it. Pen and paper are an essential part of the NYC writer's wardrobe, even at its most minimum.

And though I've resisted long enough, I'm joining the blog generation. My hopes? That this space will provide me with a forum for fleshing out ideas, kicking around premises and developing essays that will ultimately yield publishable fruit. And making it public? Hoping to be discovered, of course...by a fan base or by editors who will make my dreams of a positive checkbook balance a reality.

Thanks to all of you for reading, commenting, telling your friends, tweeting, re-blogging, linking, and generally sticking around the last five years. Here's a sampler of some of my favorites (funny and serious from many of my blog-categories) in celebration. And stick around...there's lots more to come.

Choosing to Do the New (From "Nonsensical Ravings," October 2008)

"Welcome to Hollywoood...What's Your Dream?" (From "California Kvetchin'," December 2008)

Britney and Madonna: The Phonecalls (From "Madonnanthology," May 2005)

Intimacy Intermezzo (From "My NYC," December 2006)

Approaching Midnight, 9/11/2006 (From "My NYC," September 2006)

The Traveler's Prayer (From "Kvetch Across America," April 2005)

The Urban K Meets Tina Fey (From "Pop Culture," June 2005)

The "Return" (From "Israel," July 2008)

Adventures in Israeli Cuisine (From "Israel," June 2008)

Comments

[ck]

Mazal Tov Esther on 5 years of solid kvetchy bloggage! We're all looking forward to much more. Somewhere, a historian is taking note...

[Lisa Colton]

Happy anniversary! So five years is the "wood" anniversary. Not sure how that applies to a blog. Maybe today we'll just refer to it as a LOG. Since that's made of wood, of course. Mazel tov!

[What War Zone???]

Happy birthday!

[phyllis]

happy blogaversary!

[Petitedov]

Happy Anniversary! It will be 5 years for me this summer! You are out of your toddler stage!

[Jaclyn]

five years is awesome, hope the next 5 years are even more fantastic!

[Aliza Hausman]

You are my guru, chica!

[Nice Jewish Girl]

Mazel Tov on 5 years! Thanks for sharing all of your wonderful insights with us. We'll have to have a REALLY big celebration when you reach your Blog-mitzvah!