If you get caught between the moon and New York City: An urbanite's passage to suburbia.noreply@blogger.com (Tina Traster)Fri, 4 Oct 2024 20:24:00 -0700Blogger http://www.blogger.com10125http://tinatraster.blogspot.com/en-ushttp://tinatraster.blogspot.com/2009/01/yes-you-can-live-here-too.htmlNew York Postnoreply@blogger.com (Tina Traster)Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:31:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33126883924551334.post-845016357115492175Link to my New York Post story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/01222009/realestate/yes_you_can__151286.htm0http://tinatraster.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-about-quickie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tina Traster)Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:33:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33126883924551334.post-3780794084250190150Is it me or does Facebook feel like a one-night stand with someone you knew a long time ago? First there’s that twitter of recognition when someone from the deep past “friends” you. Then all the memories (or in some cases maybe their pimply high school face) washes up. This is foreplay.Should I consummate this?I can walk away right now, before this goes any further, because let’s face it I don’t 0http://tinatraster.blogspot.com/2008/12/taste-of-technology-small-business.htmlSmall Business SeriesTaste of Technologynoreply@blogger.com (Tina Traster)Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:51:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33126883924551334.post-9024454009703742049View the video. I recently spoke at the Taste of Technology Small Business Series. For more information about this seminar and upcoming seminars, click here.0http://tinatraster.blogspot.com/2008/12/sacred-cow-moooove-over.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tina Traster)Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:46:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33126883924551334.post-6336042450956504786I grew up in a middle class family in a middle class neighborhood of teachers, cops and shopkeepers. My mother was an elementary school teacher; in fact she taught in the squat brick school where my formal education began. I’ve never questioned the integrity of teachers and I always thought it was a noble career choice.My mother used to say she taught so she could be home with girls in the 0http://tinatraster.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-father-pulled-lever.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tina Traster)Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:03:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33126883924551334.post-3975692854366870563My father pulled the lever in the election booth on Tuesday for a black man. This is an historic moment for me, just as Obama’s victory is an historic moment for America - -and the world.My father is 77 years old. He’s always played the Archie Bunker character. I have no idea why a boy raised partly in rural Connecticut but mostly in Brooklyn has had such deep-seeded prejudice over his long life.4http://tinatraster.blogspot.com/2008/11/media-taste-of-technology-small.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tina Traster)Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:40:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33126883924551334.post-1348602586254568043I will be on a panel of speakers on November 10th at the Taste of Technology Small Business Series. www.smallbiztechnology.com/tasteoftechnology. The focus of this event is how to get publicity for one’s business through media coverage. About 100 small business owners are expected to attend.The event takes place at 6:30 at the Samsung Experience, Time Warner Center, New York.The first five people0http://tinatraster.blogspot.com/2008/10/this-i-believe-national-public-radio.htmlNPR This I Believenoreply@blogger.com (Tina Traster)Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:25:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33126883924551334.post-4742176070879976509Mom and Dad are in their mid-seventies, live in a Manhattan condo and play bridge. My sister and I are in our forties, married with children, living in the suburbs. We are a family like many; there are deep strains among members, which have led to times of estrangement, but lately we crowd around a table at Thanksgiving.My sister and her husband have two birth children. My husband and I adopted 0http://tinatraster.blogspot.com/2008/10/smoke-and-mirrors.htmlFireplace InsertHeating BillsTax-Exemptnoreply@blogger.com (Tina Traster)Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:57:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33126883924551334.post-5083720806168606735My husband and I just purchased a wood-burning fireplace insert. Like everybody else we are fretting over astronomical oil and gas prices, and we’re looking for proactive ways to avoid being exploited by petro-chemical titans. We shopped for the insert this summer, and although it costs a pretty penny, we decided it would pay for itself over the course of a few winters.When the salesman came to 1http://tinatraster.blogspot.com/2008/09/free-lunches-presidential-pardons.htmlBail-OutHELOCmortgagespardonsnoreply@blogger.com (Tina Traster)Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:55:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33126883924551334.post-7759127478381195356Let me reminisce for just a moment. Those heady days seem like they were a long time ago. I put my co-op apartment up for sale, without using a real estate broker, and the first woman who came to see it said she’ll take it. I don’t think she was in the apartment more than 15 minutes before she decided, and she didn’t even bargain down the price. Not one cent.This was 2005 and I couldn’t believe 0http://tinatraster.blogspot.com/2008/09/journey-within.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tina Traster)Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:32:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33126883924551334.post-4371934718942042895It seems my true nature is one of an outsider, which is why belonging has always been a curious notion to me. I don’t at first appear to be fringe because I’m social and pleasing to the eye but people figure it out soon enough. I won’t put my hand over my heart to pledge allegiance to the flag. I don’t like fireworks and I don’t eat pizza.I am not afraid to say – or write – what I think.My first 1