Death came unexpectedly to a boyfriend of a close friend of mine in January. My friend, who is a classmate from college, had met a doctor from the city through friends roughly five years ago. He had a weekend house on the Connecticut shore in the same town she did and… Read full post »

Dennis and I talking about my training for the marathon and more.

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Back at my favorite bistro tonight. This time Dennis joined me for dinner.

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The other day by our office water cooler...

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(Here is what I thought was a private dinner conversation with Jerry.)

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Whenever I am on East 38th Street in the area of 2nd Avenue in Manhattan I am reminded of the EST people I met in 1985.

It was that year when Laurie and I had been together for seven months and one day a supervisor of Laurie's at Channel 7 Eyewitness… Read full post »

Let's go to the instant replay...

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A huge thanks to the many Open Salon readers who propelled me from nowhere to the number two spot when you type "Lauerman" in Google (thank you to Salon for the publishing platform, as well!). Perhaps results may vary from computer to computer. It may be a simple case of my… Read full post »

There is a good chance that some of you have already heard about the F-word being spoken by one of WNBC-TV's veteran news anchors, Sue Simmons, back in '08. Several people posted it on YouTube and from what I know Sue thought the mic was off during the news intro and… Read full post »

Spring cleaning is the theme of the current open call and my story contains some memorabilia, such as newspaper clippings from a transitional period in my life. Others might have tossed these long ago, but in my situation they serve as tangible… Read full post »

Spring cleaning is the theme of the current open call and my story contains some memorabilia, such as newspaper clippings from a transitional period in my life. Others might have tossed these long ago, but in my situation they serve as tangible reminders of what… Read full post »

Spring cleaning is the theme of the current open call and my story contains some memorabilia, such as newspaper clippings from a transitional period in my life. Others might have tossed these long ago, but in my situation they serve as tangible reminders of what was happening… Read full post »

I was hoping to catch tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day parade in the city but there's too much going on with my schedule. However, here are scenes I photographed last year with perfect weather.

The captions and text are from last year's two posts now combined into one post.

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I wrote a post last week about how my classmate, Beth, was such a major and positive influence on improving my diet. Well, another girlfriend who had an important role in showing me a part of Manhattan's elite world of clubs and art scene is the subject of this evening's story.… Read full post »

I know you worked hard on that post today and avoided any flame wars!

Recognizing this I am offering free EPs once again to all of you!

Remember to set the image at 155 in the html box and you'll be good to go!

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With the warm weather we've been experiencing over the past few days I was itching to get back to the cabin in CT. With the over the top type of snowfall we have had this winter I had not bothered to go to see the cabin since December. My friends told… Read full post »

I very much liked the post that Alysa Salzberg put up late this afternoon on "Are You What You Cook?"   

One of my favorite fall dishes is to chop up fresh tomatoes, carrots, and onions fresh from the garden and to sauté them with a little soy sauce.

The… Read full post »

Late in the summer of '86 found me "girlfriend-less." My friend Laurie, who had been my girlfriend for over a year, and I split up in June of that year. It had been a mutual ending of the relationship, but sad nevertheless when I thought of time that we had been… Read full post »

I haven't been here in a while.....

Have an issue about something/someone? We can discuss it.

What's on your mind? Let's hear it!

I've got some time on my hands tonight!

Any Pirate Wimmen here this evening?

You might have noticed that nothing happened here today in the way of EPs and the cover. That's because Open Salon has been on auto-pilot since late yesterday. So...........

Open Salon holiday makers: let's party!!

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I had a productive afternoon outside working on the infamous "blog cabin" and logged onto OS to see what was happening. I had a silly typo in the headline of my post which I just fixed. I was thinking about how JK Brady hadn't commented on any of my last… Read full post »

I mentioned in Wednesday's post on the parade that I would do a second post with additional photos of the festivities which I finally finished and have here. Some of the shots are taken on the side streets just east of Fifth Avenue where the various high school bands were getting… Read full post »

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I planned to take a few hours off today and catch the parade. I have more photos than are shown here and I'll do one more post tomorrow with some more shots in it.

First of all, I wanted to see if there… Read full post »

I usually don't hang out at parades, but I'm planning to see some of tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day parade on Fifth Avenue tomorrow.

The sum total of my recent parade experience is shown in the two photos below. That was the very start of the Veteran's Day parade in 2004.… Read full post »

I just realized that my first year anniversary on OS is coming up on Thursday. My third post discussed an apartment for sale that I liked the looks of in a building where I had looked at a rental apartment back in the mid '80s. Part of my attraction was… Read full post »