One of more harmless quirks is my habit of “googling people”. Try it. Put quotes around your name and hit go. You’ll be surprised where the pixel print from your internet presence has been left.
When I google myself I find a series of cooking and sewing posts, my e-opinions for which I have earned money, an encounter with an internet kook who likes to stalk mental health professionals, jewish life and a bunch of articles on child development and parenting.
Some of my googling has enabled me to connect with people from far back in my past.
I found a cousin I had lost touch with, a few men I dated and fucked, my first romantic/sexual love, a room mate from my time in VISTA (the domestic peace corps) and some women I went to school with. The only person I have not been able to find is a woman I lived with during the summer of 1967 on the upper east side of NYC. Later in 1969 I stayed with her and her mom in the Bronx off the grand concourse. Her name was Adele, she owned a german shepherd and we could get high on air and laugh the night away.Her unmarried name was Schindler and she attended Hunter College. So if you know of her tell her Dee is looking for her.
I routinely use google to keep updated with people I don’t want to contact: like my sister with the personality disorder, a man who impregnated me at the age of 16 and treated me like discarded scum, and a man with whom I had an affair in 1994- you know the time I threw myself on the mercy of my husband’s kindness and compassion and he forgave me. I just have this weird thing about keeping people close and those you don’t like should be kept even closer. metaphorically at least. Oh wait- I’d love to find Judy Panlone from northern New Jersey because I lost her grandmother’s ricotta cheesecake recipe which was to die for. So if you know her tell her the little blonde she worked with in Newark wants to hear from her.
It’s all because women change their last names. I guess to relay the ownership men felt historically towards their wives. Hey I am going to google that aha... from wikipedia
I like the spanish custom the most. but what a mishegoss my unmarried name combined with my husbands.
Shall I call myself Diana Almodovar?